Trinity Methodist Church and Sunday School Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday School and Attached Railings
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, THE SCAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282738
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trinity Methodist Church and Sunday School Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday School and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, THE SCAR
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282738
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trinity Methodist Church and Sunday School Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday School and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, THE SCAR
- Statutory Address 2:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GALGATE
- Statutory Address 3:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HORSE MARKET
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:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, THE SCAR
- Statutory Address:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GALGATE
- Statutory Address:
- TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HORSE MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04916 16579
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0416NE GALGATE
770-1/3/69 (South West side)
17/01/89 Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday
School and attached railings
GV II
Methodist church and attached Sunday School with railings.
1894. By Marley & Woodhouse of Bradford. Rock-faced stone
with ashlar plinth and dressings; slate roof with stone
gable copings and terracotta ridges and finials and stone
spire.
PLAN: ritual east is geographical west. Nave with ritual
south-west tower, west vestibule, shallow transepts, and
chancel. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: west elevation has steps up to paired double boarded
doors in gabled surrounds with nook-shafts, pointed arches,
and gabled buttresses; lancets either side. Pinnacles rising
from buttresses have high finials in front of sill-string to
large 5-light window with Geometrical tracery. At left, paired
cusped lancets to stair tower with blind-arcaded frieze under
hexagonal hipped roof; at right, 3-stage tower has 2-light
window with tracery in first stage, 2 tall lancets in second,
tall 2-light window in third with clock set in head under
gable; gabled angle buttresses rise to centre of top stage
which has chamfered coping below octagonal angle pinnacles
flanking tall spire with bands and lucarnes, and weather-vane
finial. All windows chamfered, on sill-strings and with
dripmoulds.
2-light cusped traceried windows in nave and transepts, with
buttresses defining bays; transept gables have large round
windows with geometric tracery.
Sunday School building attached to church chancel has gable
over 4-light mullioned-and-transomed window under cinquefoil
window with plate tracery; relieving arch above.
Double-boarded doors at right. Hall to right has 4 two-light
mullioned windows under hipped roof.
INTERIOR: panelled west gallery with inserted glazed screen
below; inserted boarded ceiling above high coving with
corbelled trusses and intermediate plaster panels and thin
wood ribs. Pointed chamfered rere-arches to windows. Boarded
dado.
FITTINGS: Gothic fittings, with wood Communion rail on
wrought-iron balustrade; richly decorated reading desk with
shafts and panels; organ behind reading desk. Incised brass
door furniture. Some original pews remain, with Gothic ends
and boarded backs, but most removed.
MEMORIALS: war memorial in vestibule has names carved on wood
panel; other monuments in church include a panel to Rev G
Brown, born in Barnard Castle in 1835, died 1917, missionary,
explorer and scientist.
STAINED GLASS: that in north transept by Abbott & Co. of
Leicester: David and Dorcas; south transept war memorial
window.
Hall has laminated wood roof trusses.
Alterations which began in 1989 are expected to continue with
conversion of Sunday School room to a flat.
Low walls with chamfered coping have spear-headed railings and
enclose street fronts of both parts of the building.
Listing NGR: NZ0493316588
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, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71259
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71258
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71257
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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