Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323240
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323240
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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 MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Witton Gilbert
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23498 45304
Details
WITTON GILBERT CHURCH LANE NZ 24 NW (South end) 1/51 (inset) Church of St. 10/5/67 Michael and All Angels GV II
Chapel dependant on St. Oswald's, Durham until it became parish church in 1423. C12; 1859-60 north nave wall and chancel by T. Austin. Coursed squared sandstone with plinth and ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh slate with stone gable copings. Nave with north aisle and west porch; chancel with north vestry. Gabled porch has double boarded doors in 2-centred-arched surround under dripmould; stone cross finial; small round-headed windows in returns. C12 inner doorway has round-headed surround with broach-stopped chamfers. South elevation of similar date 4 bays, with partly-blocked round-headed door, in slightly-chamfered surround,in secondbay; paired round-headed windows in first bay, and single window in third, have similar surrounds; tall 2-light C14 window in fourth bay has cusped tracery under label mould. Large buttress defines chancel, which has one slender round-headed window. Large blocks on this elevation, with some narrower courses. Large east window C14 with cusped intersecting tracery. North aisle has blocked door, and paired and single windows, in C12 style. Small medieval grave cover with incised cross set over west aisle window. Cl9 west six-foil window set in nookshafts under chamfered arch and dripmould; double-arched gabled bellcote. Stone cross finials on steeply-pitched roof.
Interior: painted plaster over boarded dado, ashlar dressings; arch-braced roof, on C19 stone corbels, with collars and small king posts. C19 north arcade of 3 double-chamfered arches with octagonal capitals to round piers on moulded plinths; scallop capitals on end corbels. Similar chancel arch on moulded corbels. Trefoil-headed piscina. South chancel window has geometric glass of 1858; other windows late C19 and early C20. Jacobean-style carved wood pulpit on stone plinth. Norman octagonal bowl font on Frosterley 'marble' pedestal. Monuments include classical white marble on black mount signed G. Green, Newcastle, to Rev. R. Richardson, died 1839.
Listing NGR: NZ2349845304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110042
- 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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