PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE

PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE, NEWPORT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329512
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1968
List Entry Name:: PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE
Statutory Address:: PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE, NEWPORT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329512
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE, NEWPORT ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PHOENIX SQUASH AND LEISURE CENTRE, NEWPORT 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 48096 19614

Details

MIDDLESBROUGH NEWPORT ROAD, NZ 41 NE (4819) south side. 3/56 Phoenix Squash and Leisure Centre (formerly listed as 17.7.68 Church of St. Cuthbert). - II Church, 1897/1902 by Temple Moore. Converted to leisure centre 1977. Brick, faced with sandstone ashlar. Lakeland slate roofs; lead roof on south-east tower. Continuous nave and chancel, with narrow aisles, north-east, north-west and south-west porches, west narthex, south-east transept, north-east and south-east towers and east chapel and vestries. Decorated style. 5-stage north-east tower, has trefoil-headed window in lower stage, narrow square-headed windows in middle 3 stages, paired pointed bell openings with louvres, and pyramidal roof with bronze cross finial. 4-stage south-east tower has similar windows in lower and middle stages, and Caernarvon-headed bell openings below embattled parapet. Shallow trumpet-shaped roof. 5-bay nave has deep stepped-chamfered plinth and buttresses between bays. Y-tracery missing from pointed windows with renewed glazing, in chamfered surrounds with ribbed heads, under hoodmoulds. Offset gabled buttresses between 3 stepped pointed east windows with curvilinear tracery; partly-blind outer windows have shortened lights flanking the buttresses. Small rose windows in east and west gables, the west blocked. 2-storey lean-to narthex has square-headed north windows, with renewed glazing, under hoodmoulds and straight parapets. Hipped roof. Slightly-projecting, gabled north-east and north-west porches have double doors under hoodmoulds and slit lights. Projecting south-west porch has studded oak double doors of older appearance, possibly from an earlier church. Transept has similar doors in deep chamfered and ribbed surround at left under 3 stepped cusped ogee-headed niches. Late C20 right doorway. Tracery removed from window, with renewed glazing, under hoodmould in gable. 2-bay north-east chapel has half-octagonal east end and gabled buttresses between bays. 5 windows with curvilinear tracery and renewed glazing. Lower canted south-east vestry has 4 similar east windows under hoodmoulds and 3 gables. INTERIOR: altered, with first floor inserted. Ground floor divided intro compartments for courts. Remains of continuous 5-bay passage arcades with short square piers. Wood 5-bay rib-vaulted roof has carved bosses with arms, and ribs on stone corbels. Stained glass: crucifixion, by H. Victor Milner, in round east window.

Listing NGR: NZ4809619614

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.