Church of St. Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBERT, STOKESLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329502
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBERT, STOKESLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329502
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBERT, STOKESLEY 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 ST. CUTHBERT, STOKESLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 51471 15878
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH STOKESLEY ROAD NZ 51 NW (5115) (west side), Marton.
4/79 Church of St. Cuthbert. 23.6.66 - II* Church, C12 largely rebuilt 1843/48, possibly by J.B. Rudd (Tollesby). Vestry c.1920. Dressed sandstone; Lakeland slate roofs. Cruciform plan with aisled nave, south and west porches and north vestry. Neo-Norman style; Early English style north transept, chancel and vestry. Continuous chamfered plinth; slender clasping buttresses and buttresses between bays. 4-bay south aisle has gabled porch in 2nd bay. Boarded double doors, with scrolled strap hinges, under double chevron-moulded head on nook shafts. Chevron-moulded eaves cornice. Aisle windows have roll-moulded heads, nook shafts and continuous impost and sill strings. Corbel table under shallow parapet. Tablet with worn arms on parapet between 3rd and 4th bays. Similar west windows in aisles. North aisle largely C12 with renewed windows and embattled parapet. Similar slightly-projecting west porch, under paired west window in deep segment-headed recess, flanked by slender buttresses. West bellcote has 2 round-headed openings holding C17 bells, under continuous hoodmould and paired gables. Crow-stepped east gable to nave. South transept has paired and single windows with chevron-moulded surrounds, and chevron-moulded gable copings. Largely medieval north transept, has mid-C19 Caernarvon-headed windows in hollow-chamfered surrounds, and crow-stepped gable. Lower 3-bay chancel has lancets and boarded south door in nailhead-moulded arch on nook shafts; hoodmoulds with carved stops. Corbel table at eaves includes 7 medieval corbels carved with stars, shields and masks. Low parapet with chamfered roll-moulded copings. East window with intersecting tracery. Cross finials on porches; transepts and chancel. 2-bay vestry similar to north transept. INTERIOR: Re-cut C12 north arcade, piers alternately octagonal and compound, capitals with flat leaves, grotesques and dragons, and bases with scrolled leaves. An original shaped base at west end. Similar mid-C19 south arcade and transept arches. Chevron and lozenge-moulded chancel arch. Low-pitched nave and transept roofs have kingpost trusses, with moulded purlins, on block corbels. Chancel roof has arch-braced collar-beam trusses, with moulded purlins, on stone corbels; east truss on shafts. C13 trefoil-arched piscina, with dogtooth moulding, in south wall. Pair of mid-C20 Vicar's stalls by Thompson (Kilburn). Good wainscoting of 1914 in sanctuary. Mid-C19 carved octagonal font. West window of south aisle has stained glass by W.E. Towers, depicting St. Nicholas of Myra. 4 windows in south transept, 1903/05 by C.E. Kempe, of Saints Hilda, Elfleda (sic), Cuthbert and Aidan. North transept window of 1911 by W.E. Towers, depicts St. Christopher. East Window, Crucifixion with saints, 1908 by Wailes (Newcastle). Benefaction board in porch. Medieval grave cover, in floor of north transept, with carving of Calvary cross and sword. HISTORY: Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., circumnavigator, baptised here 3rd November, 1728.
Listing NGR: NZ5147115878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59791
- 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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