Church of Cuthbert
CHURCH OF CUTHBERT, ALDINGHAM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335944
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF CUTHBERT, ALDINGHAM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335944
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF CUTHBERT, ALDINGHAM
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 CUTHBERT, ALDINGHAM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 28345 71034
Details
ALDINGHAM ALDINGHAM SD 27 SE Church of Cuthbert 19/3 25.3.70 II*
Church. South arcade c1190; chancel c1300; west tower; Decorated style; aisles 1845-6. Stone rubble, nave aisles and tower roughcast, with ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Nave has 4-bay aisles under catslide roofs. Aisles have straight-headed windows of 2 ogee-headed lights, windows to east. Tower has diagonal buttresses; west entrance is chamfered, hood has one stop, 3-light window above has Perpendicular tracery; 2-light straight-headed bell openings, but that to north pointed. Coped embattled parapet and angle pinnacles. Chancel has coped gable and buttresses flanking 3-light window; south elevation has 2-light pointed window with transom, trefoil-headed entrance with dog-tooth, and C17 3-light straight-headed window with colonettes; north 3-light straight-headed window has Perpendicular tracery; gabled vestry has 2-light east window. Interior: tower has diagonal buttresses flanking arch. 4-bay arcades that to south has round and octagonal piers with waterleaf capitals and stepped round arches, north arcade, C19, has octagonal piers and single-chamfered arches. Wide chancel arch of 2 orders on corbel heads. Box pews. Squint from south aisle to chancel. Round font is reeded possibly C12 with later base with clustered shafts. Chancel has piscina to south wall. Late C17 communion rail, moulded with turned balusters. North wall has Gothic memorial to Rev. J Stonard (died 1869) by J.B. Robinson.
Listing NGR: SD2834571034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75775
- 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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