Church of St Stephen
CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, A690
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279374
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, A690
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06148/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279374
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Stephen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, A690
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 STEPHEN, A690
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greater Willington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 20908 35140
Details
CROOK AND WILLINGTON A 690 (North side)
NZ 23 NW
Willington
25/9 Church of St. Stephen
GV II
Parish church. Circa 1857 by J.A. Cory; additions 1868 (probably by C.H. Fowler)
and 1873. Irregularly-coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. West tower; 4-bay nave with north aisle
and south porch; lower chancel with north vestry. 2-centred-arched double
boarded door, with studs and elaborate wrought-iron hinges, under drip string
in porch with sun-dial in gable peak. 3-stage tower with offsets has 3-light
west window with traceried 2-centred head; small cusped lancet in second stage;
Perpendicular tracery in 2-light belfry openings under flower-bracketed frieze
and battlemented parapet. Pyramidal roof has weather-cock finial. Nave
windows have 2 lights under depressed 2-centred heads, with Decorated tracery;
chancel has elliptical-headed door with moulded alternate-block surround, under
dripstring,to east; square-headed 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery
at left and above string. Diagonal buttresses to tower and porch, larger ones
to chancel, with moulded plinths; nave bays buttressed.
Interior: plaster above boarded dado; ashlar arcade. Arch-braced hammer-beam
nave roof with brattished frieze and stone-corbelled wall posts; painted
panelled chancel-roof with Tudor-flower friezes and bosses. Patterned tiles on
chancel floor. Double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers in nave, on attached
columns to chancel, and springing from wall to tower. Chancel south door
blocked; the opening, with crested wood surround, now used for priest's seat;
vestry door has low elliptical head. Rood screen; choir-stalls traceried with
poppy-heads; pews have Tudor flower decoration. Tower arch filled by glazed
screen. East window in memory of Major-General Mills of Willington Hall, died
1851. Other C19 glass in chancel and in one south nave window. Brass war
memorial (W.W.I.) on wall to left of chancel arch. Octagonal stone font.
Listing NGR: NZ2090835140
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71473
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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