Thropton United Reformed Church With Front Wall and Gatepiers to Manse
THROPTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH WITH FRONT WALL AND GATEPIERS TO MANSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281695
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Thropton United Reformed Church With Front Wall and Gatepiers to Manse
- Statutory Address:
- THROPTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH WITH FRONT WALL AND GATEPIERS TO MANSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281695
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thropton United Reformed Church With Front Wall and Gatepiers to Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THROPTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH WITH FRONT WALL AND GATEPIERS TO MANSE
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:
- THROPTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH WITH FRONT WALL AND GATEPIERS TO MANSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thropton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 02863 02247
Details
THROPTON THROPTON VILLAGE NU 00 SW (South side) 16/317 Thropton United Reformed Church (formerly listed 21.10.53 as Presbyterian Church) with front wall and gatepiers to Manse GV II
Presbyterian Church. 1863 by F.R. Wilson of Alnwick. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular 4-bay plan with 3-sided eastern apse, north-west porch carrying bell turret and south-east vestry. Free C13 style. Stepped buttresses, moulded sill string. West end has 4-light window and coped gable on moulded kneelers; other windows are all trefoil-headed lancets. Porch has boarded double doors with foliate hinges; upper part steps back to octagonal turret carrying square belfry with trefoil- headed openings, under steep gablets with sunk ornament,and spirelet with carved finial.
Interior: Plastered. All windows with shouldered rear arches. Arch-braced collar-beam roof with moulded pendants and king struts; similar half-trusses over apse. Truss fronting apse has wallposts and cusped braces. Panelled pulpit set centrally against east wall; numbered benches.
Low front wall with chamfered coping (rails removed) runs east from porch to stop-chamferedgatepiers with pyramidal caps, holding C20 wrought-iron gate.
Listing NGR: NU0286302247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236663
- 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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