Description

NZ 15 SW CONSETT LABURNUM STREET

(West side)
Blackhill
6/70 Church of St.Aidan
GV II
Parish church. 1885 by Oliver and Leeson, on site given by Consett Iron
Company; tower added and dated 1903 on panel in porch. Rock-faced sandstone
with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable
copings. Nave with south-west tower porch; transepts; chancel with north organ
loft and south vestry. Early English style. 2-stage tower has boarded double
door in chamfered 2-centred arch with dripmould; paired cusped, 2-light belfry
openings with tracery have drip moulds and are in panels under corbel tables;
broach spire has large lucarnes. Lancet windows,4 stepped in west front over 4
small cusped lights; plate-tracery 3-light east window under vesica; transepts
have paired rectangular lights in paired gables. Blocked north-west door.
Buttresses to transepts, nave and west end. Steeply-pitched roofs, slightly
lower on chancel, with decorative ridge tiles and stone cross finials. Slender
central fleche with glazed lantern.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; panelled chancel; arch-braced
roof has collared laminated trusses on stone corbels; painted panelled roof in
chancel, with symbols of Trinity and Gothic decoration. Paired double-chamfered
2-centred transept arches on corbels and round columns with nail-head. Similar
high chancel arch on moulded corbels. Chamfered rerearches and organ arch;
continuous sill string, stepped to east wall of south transept and continuing
as drip over opening to vestry. Shouldered arch to vestry from chancel.
Rood screen, chancel panelling and reredos dated 1935. Stone steps and pedestal
to Gothic wood pulpit. Square stone font on stone pedestal and 4 granite
shafts. Early C20 glass, in memory of first vicar and of John Seymour Lee;
other windows probably original clear and tinted glass in simple geometrical
leading. Brass plaque in blocked north-west door commemorates founding of
parish in 1884 and laying of foundation stone in 1885.

Listing NGR: NZ1014051564

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Aiden at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26551972

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