Church of St Gabriel
CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, SAINT GABRIEL'S AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279870
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, SAINT GABRIEL'S AVENUE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/01201/27
- Rights:
- © Mr B.G. Carroll. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279870
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gabriel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL, SAINT GABRIEL'S AVENUE
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 GABRIEL, SAINT GABRIEL'S AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 37921 56365
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE SAINT GABRIEL'S AVENUE 920-1/4/206 (East side) 08/05/50 Church of St Gabriel
GV II
Formerly known as: Church of St Gabriel CHESTER ROAD. Parish church. 1912. By CA Clayton Greene. Snecked tooled limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone copings. Aisled chancel with E undercroft, and N vestry with organ chamber over; aisled nave with transepts; W vestibule and porch. Art Nouveau modification of Tudor style. EXTERIOR: E gable has large 8-light window with 2 principal mullions high in wall over 4 deep-set 3-light stone mullioned windows; octagonal stair turrets at sides have set-back at level of E window sill, string at eaves level and squat turrets above with blind traceried panels; aisles have low-pitched gables, 2 undercroft windows and single light at outer edge above. N and S elevations have 2-light mullioned windows, plain below and the upper with tracery under straight heads. Raised crossing behind transepts has paired N and S windows; transepts have large N and S windows and smaller traceried windows in E walls; smaller windows also in nave aisles, with 4-centred-arched doors at W ends. W one-storey porch has 4-centred arch with hollow chamfered surround, stiff-leaf ornament, and wide overlight, flanked by paired 2-light windows with ogee heads. High 8-light W window. Buttresses, octagonal at E and W aisles, shallow and paired to transepts and aisles, angle to crossing, tall and shallow to chancel above aisles. All tracery curvilinear between full-height mullions; all gables and parapets have hollow-moulded coping. INTERIOR shows probable influence of St Andrew, Roker (qv) in use of large nave piers to allow aisles beneath; very wide nave; large crossing piers; roof trusses of kingpost and tie beam over windows, of raised cruck-shapes between, all on stone corbels. Panelled sanctuary with high quality oak furnishings; Small rooms with half-glazed screens flank W entrance; W passage has panelled doors with patterned glazed strips of bevelled glass; groined ceiling. Stained glass in E window by Marion D Grant. Watercolour hanging in W passage shows church as planned, with octagonal crossing tower with needle spire. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 33).
Listing NGR: NZ3792156365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, Milburn, G, Buildings and Beliefs, (1984), 33
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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