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Latitude: 54.7292 / 54°43'45"N
Longitude: -1.8212 / 1°49'16"W
OS Eastings: 411610
OS Northings: 537148
OS Grid: NZ116371
Mapcode National: GBR HFQR.HH
Mapcode Global: WHC4T.0D1C
Plus Code: 9C6WP5HH+MG
Entry Name: Church of St Bartholomew
Listing Date: 5 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233313
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408796
ID on this website: 101233313
Location: St Bartholomew's Church, Thornley, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Wolsingham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Thornley
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Church building
WOLSINGHAM THORNLEY
NZ 13 NW
23/394 Church of St.
Bartholomew
GV II
Parish church. Nave c.1840; chancel later C19; tower 1891. Sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings. 3-bay nave
with south-west tower; 3-bay chancel. 4-centred-arched surround to tower door
with linenfold panelling under stepped drip-string. Second stage has paired
louvred belfry openings with Tudor heads in square surround. Diagonal
buttresses; battlemented parapet on string with Tudor flowers and corner
gargoyles; slender octagonal spire has paired louvred opening in lower part and
iron cross finial. Sundial between nave lancets; lower chancel has 2-light
Decorated windows in bays defined by buttresses, and diagonal east buttresses.
3-light Decorated east window. Roofs have block kneelers to copings; stone
cross finials; west bellcote.
Interior: plaster; ashlar chancel arch; king post nave roof ceiled above
collar beams; cusped scissor-truss chancel roof. Double-chamfered 2-centred
chancel arch with filleted shafts and head-stopped drip mould. 3 steps up to
chancel and one to sanctuary. Filleted east sill string forms reredos cornice;
brass strip above has Gothic-lettered inscription commemorating Rev. J. Elliot,
died 1855. Cusped 2-centred-arched aumbry and sedilia with ball-flower stopped
drip moulds. Gothic-arcaded stone communion rail has Frosterley marble shafts.
C17 Frosterley marble font, on water-leaf base, probably originally from
Wolsingham parish church. Mid C19 glass in strong primary colours in west, east
and some chancel windows.
Listing NGR: NZ1161037148
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