Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250112
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250112
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, CHURCH SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 51062 32586
Details
HARTLEPOOL CHURCH SQUARE NZ 5132 (in middle of road) 11/48 Christ Church 10.11.82
G.V. II*
Church, now redundant, 1850-54 by E.B. Lamb (London). Rockfaced, snecked limestone; plain clay tile roofs. Quasi Early English style. Aisled nave, transepts, aisled and ½-octagonal apsed chancel; vestries in angles of nave and transepts; and west tower. 4-stage tower, 2nd and 3rd stages being deeply set back behind broad chamfered string courses; high battered parapet on corbel table, has pierced balustrade. Vice at south-east angle rises above tower as turret having splay-footed spirelet. Clock mechanism by W. Potts (Leeds) 1911, with faces applied to belfry openings on north, east and west faces. Porch to west side of tower. Early English style to windows and other details generally. Rose windows to transept gables. Tripartite east window. Crossing lit by octagonal timber lantern with tiled, sprocketed, low-pitched fleche. Good stained glass in chancel and transept windows. Most internal fittings removed, except for west gallery of wood, and octagonal oak pulpit on carved stone pedestal. Disused at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ5106932586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432343
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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