Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, SHIBDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355120
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, SHIBDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355120
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, SHIBDON 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, SHIBDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18436 63381
Details
NZ 16 SE BLAYDON SHIBDON ROAD
(north side)
4/21
Church of St. Cuthbert
G.V. II
Parish church. 1844 - 45 by G. Pickering; chancel 1860-62 by J.E. Watson;
tower 1869; re-roofed and restored 1882. Snecked sandstone with plinth and
ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh slate has overlapping stone gable copings.
Early English, and Decorated styles. Nave with large north aisle;
chancel with north porch; west tower. Paired lancets,cusped in chancel
under dentil table. Battlemented tower has corner and side spirelets,
angle gargoyles. South entrance of pointed arch with nook shafts under
head-stopped drip mould; upper stages have 2-light window, clock set in round
stone surround in 2-light opening, 2-light belfry opening and quatrefoil
bands. Chancel has 4-light east window with bar tracery; north porch
has east door in chamfered pointed arch under cusped triangular window, and
2-light window at right. Steeply pitched roofs. Interior: round piers
to double-chamfered 4-bay nave arcades; walls plastered to boarded
dado: arch-braced roof on flower-decorated corbels. Memorials: priest's
stall, Frosterley marble steps and terrazzo in front of chancel, and chancel
screen, 1899 to Reverend M. Green; 1902 pulpit to South African War and
Coronation of Edward VII; Boer War brass tablet in south aisle. First
World War memorial font; Second World War memorial tablet.
Listing NGR: NZ1843663381
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42069
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42068
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42065
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42066
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42057
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249160
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249203
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249157
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249180
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249194
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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