CHURCH OF ST AIDEN

CHURCH OF ST AIDEN, LABURNUM STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260991
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AIDEN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AIDEN, LABURNUM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260991
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AIDEN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST AIDEN, LABURNUM STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AIDEN, LABURNUM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 10140 51564

Details

NZ 15 SW CONSETT LABURNUM STREET

(West side) Blackhill 6/70 Church of St.Aidan GV II Parish church. 1885 by Oliver and Leeson, on site given by Consett Iron Company; tower added and dated 1903 on panel in porch. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south-west tower porch; transepts; chancel with north organ loft and south vestry. Early English style. 2-stage tower has boarded double door in chamfered 2-centred arch with dripmould; paired cusped, 2-light belfry openings with tracery have drip moulds and are in panels under corbel tables; broach spire has large lucarnes. Lancet windows,4 stepped in west front over 4 small cusped lights; plate-tracery 3-light east window under vesica; transepts have paired rectangular lights in paired gables. Blocked north-west door. Buttresses to transepts, nave and west end. Steeply-pitched roofs, slightly lower on chancel, with decorative ridge tiles and stone cross finials. Slender central fleche with glazed lantern. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; panelled chancel; arch-braced roof has collared laminated trusses on stone corbels; painted panelled roof in chancel, with symbols of Trinity and Gothic decoration. Paired double-chamfered 2-centred transept arches on corbels and round columns with nail-head. Similar high chancel arch on moulded corbels. Chamfered rerearches and organ arch; continuous sill string, stepped to east wall of south transept and continuing as drip over opening to vestry. Shouldered arch to vestry from chancel. Rood screen, chancel panelling and reredos dated 1935. Stone steps and pedestal to Gothic wood pulpit. Square stone font on stone pedestal and 4 granite shafts. Early C20 glass, in memory of first vicar and of John Seymour Lee; other windows probably original clear and tinted glass in simple geometrical leading. Brass plaque in blocked north-west door commemorates founding of parish in 1884 and laying of foundation stone in 1885.

Listing NGR: NZ1014051564

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Legacy System number:: 438996
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.