Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ALL SAINTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322841
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ALL SAINTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322841
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, ALL SAINTS ROAD
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 ALL SAINTS, ALL SAINTS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shildon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23234 25314
Details
NZ 22 NW SHILDON ALL SAINT'S ROAD, New Shildon (South end, off)
4/62 Church of All Saints
II
Parish church. 1868-9 by J.P. Pritchett with early C20 narthex. Rock-faced dressed sandstone and brick-lined interior. Graduated green slate roofs; narthex has Welsh slate roof. North-west tower; nave with western narthex; chancel with eastern apse and north and south vestries. Early English style with chamfered plinth and plate-tracery windows.
Tall and elaborate square-plan tower,with octagonal broach spire,adjoins north- west bay of nave. Angle-buttressed lower stage has pointed-arched north doorway and small lancets above. Middle, belfry stage has louvred lancets in crocketed gablets with prominent gargoyles. Spire has 4 bands of stone fish-scale tiles.
Buttressed 5-bay nave has 2-light plate-tracery windows under pointed arches with alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. West end has large sexfoil window. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof with flat-coped gables. Buttressed, triple-gabled narthex has central quatrefoil flanked by groups of 3 lancets.
Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel has buttressed, semicircular apse with 3 lancets; datestone (April 13th 1868) beneath north-eastern lancet. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof.
Vestries have low, monopitch roofs with coped ends. North vestry has pair of trefoil-headed lancets and a stepped lateral stack.
Plain, painted interior. Nave roof has 4 principal trusses with arch-braced collars. Tall and wide, pointed chancel arch has roll moulding and hoodmould on headstops.
Listing NGR: NZ2323425314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112178
- 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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