Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322768
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322768
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, TOWN END
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 MARY, TOWN END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton in Teesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 94770 25639
Details
MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE TOWN HEAD NY 9425 (East side)
24/131 (inset) Church of St. Mary
GV II
Parish church. 1878 by C. Hodgson Fowler on medieval church site. Squared sandstone in courses of varied thickness with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof of graduated grey/green slates with roll-moulded ridge tiles and stone gable coping. 4-bay aisled nave with south porch; 3-bay chancel with north vestry and organ chamber. Steps up to open arch in buttressed porch under steep gable; inner double boarded doors with strap hinges; both arches pointed, the outer with 3 hollow chamfers under leaf-stopped dripmould, the inner with beakhead corbels, 2 wide chamfers. Pointed-arched windows, with cusped Y-tracery in aisles and chancel; 3-light in east end of south aisle with intersecting tracery; similar style 4-light west window. Cusped reticulated tracery in 5-light east window; stepped sill string to chancel. 2-light square-headed clerestory windows with cusped tracery. Stone cross finials on nave and on lower chancel; coping also on pent aisle roofs.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades and dressings; collared king- post nave roof on corbels; panelled chancel roof. Double-chamfered pointed arcades on octagonal piers; similar chancel arch on head-corbelled shafts. Re-used 2-light medieval window in organ chamber. Tub font on medieval octagonal pedestal and 3 chamfered medieval shafts. 14 grave covers (some incomplete) with incised decoration, and some fragments of chevron moulding, built into north wall. North chancel wall has small brass to Simon Comyer d.1620, with brass coat of arms above. C19 chancel screen and furnishings. Glass includes some late C19; 2 windows dated and signed 1982 by G. Maile Studio, Canterbury - including St. Miriam, to an organist. Early C19 poor box with 2 locks and inscription in Roman capitals.
Source: P. Ryder, Medieval Grave Covers of County Durham.
Listing NGR: NY9477025639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111932
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North, (1985)
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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