CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1356667
Date first listed: 21-Jan-1987
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH, A692
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH, A692
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
National Grid Reference: NZ 13727 52112
Summary
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Details
NZ 15 SW CONSETT A 692
(South side)
Brooms
6/1
Church of Our
Blessed Lady and
St. Joseph
II
Roman Catholic parish church. 1866-9 by Edward Welby Pugin. Snecked sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Aisled nave with north porch; chancel.
Decorated style. Boarded double doors with elaborate iron hinges, in chamfered
and moulded 2-centred arch in east face of buttressed, gabled porch; 3 lancets
under 6-foil light in north gable. Buttressed aisles have 5 large lancets in
south; 4 in north and porch at west end; 6-foil lights in east ends of aisles.
Massive west buttresses flank 5 small windows; large 6-foil light in west gable.
Dripmoulds, most with block stops. Chancel with 3-sided apse has 5 groups of 3
cusped lancets. Steeply-pitched roofs, pent over aisles, with small cross gable
over roundel in each eastern bay. Stone cross finials at west and on cross
gables; small east gabled dormer and wrought iron cross finial.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings and arcades; scissor-braced
nave roof with struts to principals; all rafters on deeply-moulded corbels.
Panelled chancel roof on marble shafts with C13-style capitals and angel corbels.
Arcades, each east bay containing 2 narrow arches, have 2-centred moulded arches
on alternate round and octagonal piers. Rerearches to all windows. Wide
segmental-arched west gallery. High quality Gothic-style Caen stone altar and
reredos; wood pulpit and side altar in Gothic style. Most glass original, in
simple geometric patterns; west window has pictorial glass, with Lamb in centre.
Listing NGR: NZ1372752112
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 438585
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.
End of official listing