Description

MIDDLESBROUGH NEWPORT ROAD,
NZ 41 NE (4819)
south side.
3/56 Phoenix Squash and
Leisure Centre
(formerly listed as
17.7.68 Church of St.
Cuthbert).
- II
Church, 1897/1902 by Temple Moore. Converted to leisure centre 1977.
Brick, faced with sandstone ashlar. Lakeland slate roofs; lead roof on
south-east tower. Continuous nave and chancel, with narrow aisles,
north-east, north-west and south-west porches, west narthex, south-east
transept, north-east and south-east towers and east chapel and vestries.
Decorated style. 5-stage north-east tower, has trefoil-headed window in
lower stage, narrow square-headed windows in middle 3 stages, paired pointed
bell openings with louvres, and pyramidal roof with bronze cross finial.
4-stage south-east tower has similar windows in lower and middle stages, and
Caernarvon-headed bell openings below embattled parapet. Shallow
trumpet-shaped roof. 5-bay nave has deep stepped-chamfered plinth and
buttresses between bays. Y-tracery missing from pointed windows with
renewed glazing, in chamfered surrounds with ribbed heads, under hoodmoulds.
Offset gabled buttresses between 3 stepped pointed east windows with
curvilinear tracery; partly-blind outer windows have shortened lights
flanking the buttresses. Small rose windows in east and west gables, the
west blocked. 2-storey lean-to narthex has square-headed north windows,
with renewed glazing, under hoodmoulds and straight parapets. Hipped roof.
Slightly-projecting, gabled north-east and north-west porches have double
doors under hoodmoulds and slit lights. Projecting south-west porch has
studded oak double doors of older appearance, possibly from an earlier
church. Transept has similar doors in deep chamfered and ribbed surround at
left under 3 stepped cusped ogee-headed niches. Late C20 right doorway.
Tracery removed from window, with renewed glazing, under hoodmould in gable.
2-bay north-east chapel has half-octagonal east end and gabled buttresses
between bays. 5 windows with curvilinear tracery and renewed glazing.
Lower canted south-east vestry has 4 similar east windows under hoodmoulds
and 3 gables. INTERIOR: altered, with first floor inserted. Ground floor
divided intro compartments for courts. Remains of continuous 5-bay passage
arcades with short square piers. Wood 5-bay rib-vaulted roof has carved
bosses with arms, and ribs on stone corbels. Stained glass: crucifixion, by
H. Victor Milner, in round east window.

Listing NGR: NZ4809619614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614784

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