Church of St Mary, Hartlepool
Description: Church of St Mary
Grade: II
Date Listed: 31 March 1949
English Heritage Building ID: 432544
OS Grid Reference: NZ5278233777
OS Grid Coordinates: 452782, 533777
Latitude/Longitude: 54.6963, -1.1826
Location: 140 Durham Street, Hartlepool TS24 0HT
Locality: Hartlepool
Local Authority: Hartlepool
County: Durham
Country: England
Postcode: TS24 0HT
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Listing Text
HARTLEPOOL DURHAM STREET
NZ 5233
(west side),
Headland
8/63 Church of St. Mary
31.3.49
- II
Wrongly shown on O.S. plan as Brougham Street. Roman Catholic Church, 1850,
by J.A. Hansom (Preston). Dressed limestone with quoins at angles; Welsh
slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings. Early English style.
Disoriented, terms used are ritual. Aisled, clearstoried nave, bowed
apsidal chancel, north and north-east vestries, south chapel, and west tower
from which spire was removed c. 1945. Crypt below chancel now used as
chapel. 4-stage tower has clasping buttresses, straight parapet, corbelled
out, and vice at north-east angle. Pointed west doorway of 3 moulded
orders, the middle order having nook shafts and the inner being
trefoil-headed. Figure of Virgin in trefoil-headed gabled niche in west
face of 2nd stage; lancets with nook shafts and hoodmoulds, to north and
south faces of 2nd stage and in pairs to each face of top stage. Each face
of 3rd stage has a cinquefoil. 6-bay nave has paired, chamfered, trefoil
headed clearstorey windows. Single lancets, with hoodmoulds and carved
stops to aisles and apse. Church interior is painted. Chamfered arcade
arches on alternate round and octagonal piers. Coupled-rafter roof with 2
collar beams, wall posts, arched braces and curved angle struts to lower
beam. West gallery of 1886. Stained glass to aisle and apse windows by
Francis Barnett (York) 1851. Painted stone sedilia with cinquefoil head.
Heavily carved and ornamented marble altar with predella, tabernacle and
arcaded antependium. Alabaster communion rails and brass gates.
Tessellated pavement to centre aisle.
Listing NGR: NZ5278233777
Source: English Heritage
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