Church of St Aidan
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RYHOPE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292317
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RYHOPE STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/00752/13
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292317
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aidan
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, RYHOPE 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 AIDAN, RYHOPE STREET
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 40826 54568
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45SW RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/7/190 (East side) 08/05/50 Church of St Aidan (Formerly Listed as: RYHOPE ROAD, Grangetown (East side) Church of St Aidan)
GV II
Parish church. 1910-11. By C Hodgson Fowler, with the help of anonymous gifts from Matilda Miller; completed in 1930 with addition of S aisle, chancel, sanctuary and vestries to original designs and in matching materials, through gifts from George and Dorothy Short. Red brick with ashlar red sandstone dressings; roof of plain tiles with red ridge tiles, with stone gable copings; shingle roof on bellcote. Gothic style with plinth, stepped buttresses and perpendicular tracery. Aisled nave with N porch and vestries. EXTERIOR: gabled nave has 5-light E window flanked by gabled aisles. 5 nave bays defined by buttresses with continuous sill string; 4-light pointed-arched aisle windows recessed in chamfered surrounds of high pointed-arched panels springing from buttresses at sill string. N gabled porch has steps up to pointed arch with hollow-moulded chamfer; large band hinges on boarded door; side buttresses below gabled kneelers and stone gable coping. Similar door in W bay of S aisle. 3 E gables, separated by high buttressses, have sill strings, the central higher, to 6-light nave and 3-light aisle windows with intermittent ashlar blocks supporting coping with gabled kneelers; cross finials on aisles. 3 steeply pitched roofs; bellcote near W end of nave has tall pyramidal spirelet of shingles with swept eaves over louvres on shingle-covered plinth; gabled covering to brick-sided vent of chimney at E end of N aisle. INTERIOR light and spacious; plaster above high panelled wainscot; sandstone arcades; no formal chancel division. 4-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers with brattished capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches; narrow W baptistry bay; 2-bay chancel with compound piers; no chancel arch, but paired 2-light roof lights over E bay of nave. Corbelled arch-braced roof trusses have struts and king post on high collar; aisle roof trusses on wall posts. FITTINGS: side chapels have high-quality wood screens; low choir screen with linenfold panelling; oak choir stalls, communion rail and pulpit with perpendicular tracery; painted tryptych reredos in sanctuary and in Lady Chapel. Octagonal font of fine-grained red sandstone on compound shaft has low relief religious scenes and inscription saying it was gift of the children in 1911. High quality painted glass in E and W windows. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 23; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 158).
Listing NGR: NZ4082654568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391568
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 158
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 23
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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