Description

NZ 05 SE CONSETT ST. MARY STREET
(North side)
Blackhill
5/78 Church of Our Blessed
Lady Immaculate
II
Roman Catholic parish church. 1854-7 by A. Dunn; spire 1872. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with
stone gable copings. Aligned north-south. Aisled nave with ritual south-west
porch and south-east tower in south aisle; chancel with north link to presbytery
attached to north-east. Early English style. West front has double boarded
doors in shafted cusped arch and moulded 2-centred-arched surround; 3 tall
lancets above and trefoiled roundel in gable peak; south-west door in 2-centred
chamfered arch under gable with statue in niche; lancet windows, paired in
aisles and tall in each of 3 sides of east apse, and paired in south wall of
lower chancel; 5 cinquefoil clerestory lights. Steeply-pitched roofs with cross
finials. 3-stage tower has triple south lancets and plate-tracery 2-light east
window in first stage, under relieving arches; string below second stage with
statue in niche under clock on south, and tall slender paired lancets on east;
set-back third stage has paired bell openings under cinquefoils in panels with
foliage-carved cornices. Parapet with corner and centre gargoyles at string
course; pyramidal slate roof has large lucarnes and wrought iron cross finial.
4-stage octagonal north-east stair-turret has small door with shouldered arch
and window with shouldered heads; top stage, on string with gargoyles, has
lancets under gabled drip-string on gargoyle stops. Tall stone spire with small
lucarnes and cross finial. Gabled buttresses to aisles, angle buttresses to
tower, tall coped west buttresses.
Interior: painted plaster over boarded dado; painted ashlar dressings; panelled
chancel. Arch-braced scissor-truss nave roof with side struts on moulded
corbels; chancel roof of painted panels with medallions. 4-bay north and 5-bay
south arcades have high 2-centred chamfered arches to porch, chapel and
continuation of north arcade under west organ gallery on wood brackets. East
nave wall covered in painted canvas, with Gothic-lettered border to chancel
arch, and dim pictorial panel. Gothic-style wood reredos; late C19/early C20
traceried altar, communion rail and pulpit. Chamfered square pew ends have
oval enamel number plaques. In porch a wall stoup under a cusped arch, and
painted cast-iron Gothic-style pillar stoup.

Listing NGR: NZ0980451554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551947

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