Church of St Margaret of Antioch
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263299
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263299
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret of Antioch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, HIGH STREET
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 MARGARET OF ANTIOCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skelton and Brotton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 68896 19846
Details
NZ 61NE SKELTON & BROTTON HIGH STREET (north side) Brotton
3/11 Church of St. Margaret of Antioch 25.5.66 II
Church, 1888-91, by Hicks and Charlewood. Hammer-dressed snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain clay tile roofs. Decorated style with reticulated and geometric tracery . Aisled continuous nave and chancel, south porch, west baptistry/porch, and sanctus bell turret. Diagonal and angle buttresses. Nave south aisle of 5 bays separated by buttresses; doorway in western bay; 3 windows to north aisle. Gable copings define division between nave and chancel. li-bay chancel arcades. 3-stage, octagonal bell turret rising from south side of chancel arch, has gabled buttresses to alternate faces, lesenes at angles rising to crocketed pinnacles linked by pierced parapet above louvred, trefoil-headed bell openings. Flat-roofed baptistry has integral flanking porches, with straight parapet and watershots. Flat-roofed south porch has pointed doorway with carved spandrels below paired trefoil-headed windows both under continuous hoodmoulds. Parapet with cross finial over doorway. Ornate iron rainwater hopperheads, square downpipes and hollow-chamfered guttering. Interior: 5-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches under continuous hoodmould. Moulded wall-plates with scriptural inscriptions. Panelled barrel roofs to nave and chancel, with bosses. Panelled aisle roofs with carved bosses. Pine panelling, with embattled top rail, to sill-height in aisles. Chamfered chancel arch; 2-bay chancel arcades with foliate capitals, hold glazed and panelled screens. Organ chamber and vestry in north aisle; Lady Chapel in south aisle. Carved wood choir stalls with poppy-head ends. 2-bay timber sedilia and enriched stone credence niche. Heavily- carved stone reredos of 1902: 6 pinnacled towers with figures of saints in niches, separated by 5 bays holding paintings of saints and a landscape of 1923. Tripartite arcade between nave and baptistry/porch. Stained glass in east window, 1897 by P. Bacon Bros. (London). Late C19 stained glass in south aisle by C.J. Baguley (Newcastle); east window of Lady Chapel, 1932 by Wm. Glasby (London). Good late C19 stained glass also in baptistry, west window and north aisle. 2 bells with crown hangings, one dated 1778, the other possibly medieval, in south porch.
Listing NGR: NZ6889619846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432729
- 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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