Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323050
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323050
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, THE 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 GILES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowes
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99291 13514
Details
BOWES THE STREET NY 9913 (South side) 33/27 Church of St. Giles 12/1/67 II Parish church. Mid C12 nave; C13 chancel; C14 north and south transepts; c.1404 south porch. Extensively restored and north porch added in 1863 by Messrs. Hay of Liverpool. Coursed and partly-rendered sandstone rubble; graduated green slate roofs. Aisleless nave with north and south porches and transepts; chancel. All windows, except for east window are trefoil-headed lancets of 1863.
4-bay nave: fragments of low plinth; flat buttresses at west; large 3-light west window under pointed hoodmould; west bellcote with twin pointed openings; steeply-pitched roof with coped gables and shaped footstones.
Buttressed, lower and narrower 4-bay chancel: C19 priest's door to south; late C15 Perpendicular 3-light east window with panel tracery and a depressed-pointed head under hollow-chamfered hoodmould; steeply-pitched roof.
Gabled south porch: moulded pointed-arched doorway under hoodmould with eastern head stop; worn crucifixion relief in gable. Gabled north porch with pointed- arched doorway. Mid C12 doorways, within both porches, have chamfered round arches; datestone (AN:DO:) above north door. Gabled transepts each with 2 1694 lancets; 2 sculptured stones in north transept gable.
Painted and plastered interior. North transept has double-chamfered arch dying into wall and a pointed-arched piscina with fluted drain. Chancel with similar arch on moulded semicircular mid-wall corbels; pointed-arched piscina in south chancel wall has foliated cross-slab head in rear wall; round rear-arch of a blocked priest's door in north chancel wall.
Fittings and monuments: Inscribed Roman dedication stone in north transept. Large grave slab,with sword and hound,to west of north door; several other medieval grave slab fragments. 2 fonts flanking north door: C12 circular bowl with incised zig-zag on C13 stem with 4 engaged shafts; this stem probably belonged to the other font, a C13 circular bowl with 3 bands of leafwork, which now stands upon a re-cut fragment of a Roman altar. Small, possibly C17 circular bowl, with small relief of a human figure and raised geometric decoration, to east of north door. Plaque dated 1878, on south nave wall, records a sum of money raised, by the friends of Thomas Headlam to augment the living of Bowes.
(Rev. William Oliver, The Story of Bowes Church, 1944).
Listing NGR: NY9929113514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oliver, W, The Story Of Bowes Church, (1944)
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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