Church of St Aidan Including Walls, Railings and Gates
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263293
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan Including Walls, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, OXFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263293
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan Including Walls, Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, STOCKTON ROAD
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 ST AIDAN, OXFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, STOCKTON ROAD
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 50725 31426
Details
NZ 53 SW
4/85
HARTLEPOOL
OXFORD STREET (south side)
Church of St Aidan including walls, railings and gates
II
Church 1891, by J.H. Morton (Sunderland), tower 1911. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs having crested ridge tiles. Clerestoryed and aisled nave, lower chancel with south aisle, north organ chamber, and northwest tower over porch.
three-stage tower has octagonal vice at southwest angle, rising to top of second stage. Niche to north face with figure of St. Aidan, over doorway of three orders. Plate-traceried window to west face of lower stage, under continuous hoodmould. Two lancets with sill bands, to north, east and west faces of second stage, below lozenge-shaped open-work clock faces. Upper stage has tall five-bay arcade to each face, of alternate narrow and wider pointed openings with heavily moulded heads and slim shafts; narrow arches blank, wide arches open with louvres. Straight dentilled parapet with moulded coping and square pyramidal lantern at south-west angle. Set-back buttresses at all angles of church.
Nave and aisles of five bays defined by buttresses and pilaster strips, flanking pointed plate-traceried windows under continuous hoodmoulds. Tripartite pointed west window with geometrical tracery to middle opening. Three lancets to east gable end. Pointed nave arcades have round piers and alternate round and octagonal moulded capitals. Timber wall-posts rise from corbels above clerestorey sill bands, to barrel roof. Chancel arch of two orders springs from moulded capitals of compound responds set on corbels. Blind, trefoil-headed timber arcading applied to wall tops below chancel eaves.
Good late C19 and early/mid C20 stained glass to east window and south aisle, including work by D. Marion Grant, E.L. Armitage and Messrs L. and D. 1940/41. Heavily carved, painted and gilded oak altar has figures of angels and lamb within arcaded antependium. Similar reredos, with figures of saints, angels and Resurrected Christ, has four-panelled sections to either side painted with figures of saints. Octagonal stone font drum and pedestal with four marble shafts and relief ornamentation to panelled sides of bowl and pedestal. Dwarf brick area wall with chamfered stone copings, iron railings and gates, to west, north and east sides of church.
Listing NGR: NZ5072531426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432707
- 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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