Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and Attached Presbytery

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, ROAD TO GLANTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371453
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and Attached Presbytery
Statutory Address:
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, ROAD TO GLANTON
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Date:
2000-09-03
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371453
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and Attached Presbytery
Statutory Address 1:
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, ROAD TO GLANTON

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, ROAD TO GLANTON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whittingham
National Grid Reference:
NU 06960 13355

Details

WHITTINGHAM ROAD To GLANTON NU 01 SE 10/147 R.C. Church of St. Mary and attached presbytery

GV II

Roman Catholic Church and presbytery. 1877-81 by Dunn and Hanson. Snecked stone with Welsh slate roof. Church in Romanesque style, house in Tudor style.

Church 5 bays with round-headed doorway on right, in portal with stone pent roof; arch with 2 chamfers and a roll mould, and moulded drip stone.

To left round-headed windows with dripstones. Moulded sill string. Rounded stone brackets support guttering. East end has 3 round-headed windows and rose window of 3 circles above. Gabled roof with kneelers, overlapping coping and foliated cross finial.

Attached on left 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan presbytery has door and narrow window in extruded stone porch between projecting right bay and rear wing. 2- and 3-light windows with shouldered lintels. Steeply-pitched gabled roof with overlapping coping and corniced ridge stacks.

Whittingham Vale: David Dippie Dixon: Frank Graham, Newcastle 1974.

Listing NGR: NU0696013355

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Legacy System number:
236232
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Dixon, D, Whittingham Vale, (1974)

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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.

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