Description

NZ 05 SE CONSETT CHURCH BANK

(North side)
Shotley Bridge
5/24 (inset) St. Cuthbert's
School
GV II

Parish school. 1882 by Smith and Son; site given by Robert Dickinson of
Shotley House. Dated 1881 and 1897 on porches. Snecked sandstone with ashlar
plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Early
English style. One storey, with basement at west on slope of hill; 5 bays.
Chamfered 2-centred arches in inner returns of porches, open and with recessed
double door and overlight at left, and with diagonally-boarded door at right;
front gables of porches have plate-traceried 3-light windows, with dated
shields on leaf-stopped strings in gable peaks; large plate-traceried 3-light
window in front gable of left wing; 2 groups of 3 lancets in main range between
porches. Flat gable copings, with roll-moulded finials, on porches; steeply-
pitched roof has similar copings with stone cross finials; central Gothic-
arcaded fleche with wrought-iron cross finial.
L-plan, with gabled left wing overlapping left porch, and matching porch in
right bay.
Source: G. Neasham, The History and Biographies of West Durham, Durham 1883,83.
Included for group value

Listing NGR: NZ0929152661

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533306

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)