Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, EAST MIDDLETON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299460
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, EAST MIDDLETON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299460
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, EAST MIDDLETON
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 GEORGE, EAST MIDDLETON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 36584 11710
Details
MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE EAST MIDDLETON NZ 31 SE (East side)
9/56 Church of 20/3/67 St. George
II
Former parish church. Probably C13; chancel largely rebuilt and nave widened on north c.1822; restored 1888. Coursed rubble patched with brick; some squared medieval walling on south nave wall; graduated green slate roofs. Aisleless nave with south porch; 1888 west tower now demolished; chancel with north vestry.
Mainly late C19 pointed windows with brick heads except where noted otherwise. All windows have simple wood tracery forming grouped lancets. 2-bay nave. South side: fragmentary chamfered plinth; replaced door, behind porch on west bay, has re-set chamfered lintel; square-headed window in east bay has chamfered reveals, hoodmould and shouldered rear arch; buttress with 2 offsets at east. North wall of c.1822 has two pointed 3-light windows. Low-pitched roof with stone-coped gables.
Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel. South side: fragmentary chamfered plinth; Priest's door with re-set chamfered lintel; 3-light pointed windows in west bay and at east end; low-pitched roof with coped east gable. Late C19 gabled porch has round-arched doorway with brick head.
Plastered interior. Narrow C13 pointed red sandstone chancel arch, of one chamfered order, on mid-wall corbels: male head on north corbel; female head, with tongue out, on south corbel. Floor slab in chancel to Jane Killinghall died 1726. Tub-shaped c.1160 sandstone font on possibly C14 stepped, irregular octagonal base.
C20 brick vestry is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3658411710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350459
- 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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