Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250534
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250534
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STRANTON
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:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH ROW
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STRANTON
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 50887 31992
Details
HARTLEPOOL STRANTON NZ 5031 & 5032 (NZ 53 SW) (west side)
4/116 & 10/116 Church of All Saints 24.3.50
- II*
Church, C12, with late C13 north aisle, arcade and tower : upper part rebuilt C14 when chancel also partly rebuilt; late C14 south aisle and arcade; C15 north chapel, chancel arch, clearstories and porch; mid/late C19 north vestries and south organ chamber. Whole church restored and altered in C18, 1852, 1889 by J.H. Morton (South Shields), and 1898 by Charlewood & Hicks (Newcastle). Earlier work of snecked and coursed limestone rubble; later work of snecked and dressed sandstone. Welsh slate roofs, and lead to flat roof of north aisle. Aisled nave, with clearstorey and porch to south; chancel, 2 vestries and chapel to north side, organ chamber to south. West tower, of 3 stages defined by chamfered step-backs; diagonal buttresses with offsets; embattled parapet and angle and intermediate pinnacles. 3 grouped lancets to west face of lower stage; slit lights to south and west faces of middle stage; upper stage has clock faces below round-headed openings holding paired trefoil-headed lights. Nave has pointed south doorway of 2 chamfered orders, under hoodmould and ogee-headed niche. 3 paired lancets to south clearstorey and 2 similar, blocked, to north clearstorey concealed by raised aisle roof. Pointed south and east windows to chancel have geometric traceries. North chapel has 2 Perpendicular-traceried segmental-headed windows. All other windows are of 1898. Tower arch of 2 chamfered orders without responds. 2-bay pointed nave arcades of 2 chamfered orders, with octagonal piers and responds, those to north having moulded capitals. Stone benches either side of porch. Pointed chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders with moulded capital to octagonal south respond; north springing is from arcade respond. North chapel open to chancel by 2-bay arcade similar to nave, and to the aisle by a similar arch. North aisle windows have stained glass by Messrs. Wailes and Stang (Newcastle) c.1898. Piscina with moulded semicircular head, in chancel; another, simpler, in south aisle, below trefoil-headed niche with crocketed canopy supported by human figures of c.1400. Fragments of Anglo-Saxon and later carved masonry, built into east wall of south aisle. V.C.H. Durham, Vol. III, 1928, pp 373-375.
Listing NGR: NZ5088631993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Durham, (1928), 373-375
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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