Description

SE 7288-7388 APPLETON-LE-MOORS VILLAGE STREET
(east side)

7/19 Christ Church

GV I

Church. 1863-65. By J L Pearson, for Mrs J Shepherd as a memorial to her
husband. Dressed limestone with ashlar dressings. Mansfield stone column
shafts and Rosedale ironstone interior details. Slate roof. High Victorian
Gothic. 3-bay aisled nave with narthex, apsidal chancel, with mortuary
chapel to north and square south-east tower with pyramidal spire. Lancet
windows throughout except for rose window in west gable. A string course
runs around the nave, chancel and chapel at west door impost level. Ashlar
bands and a band of sunk quatrefoils at springing level of nave windows.
The narthex projects beneath a pent roof between buttresses and contains an
entrance arch of 3 orders with attached shafts with foliate capitals. The
apse has shafted lancets set into an arcade on detached shafts of Mansfield
stone, with foliate capitals. Tower: 2-light bell openings with attached
shafts and lucarnes. Interior: nave arcade carried on square-section piers
with embedded shafts at the angles, annulets, and foliate capitals. Inlaid
Rosedale ironstone banding and decorative motifs throughout. Arcading on
detached shafts to apse and aisle windows. Wooden braced king post roof.
Original fittings include pulpit, font, reredos, glass and richly painted
organ. A Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson, p 239.

Listing NGR: SE7348088093

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Christ Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17525534

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)