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Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL OXFORD STREET
NZ 53 SW
(south side)
Church of St Aidan
4/85
including walls, railings
and gates

II

Church 1891, by J.H. Morton (Sunderland), tower 1911. Brick with stone
dressings and Welsh slate roofs having crested ridge tiles. Clearstoried
and aisled nave, lower chancel with south aisle, north organ chamber, and
north-west tower over porch. 3-stage tower has octagonal vice at south-west
angle, rising to top of 2nd stage. Niche to north face with figure of St.
Aidan, over doorway of 3 orders. Plate-traceried window to west face of
lower stage, under continuous hoodmould. 2 lancets with sill bands, to
north, east and west faces of 2nd stage, below lozenge-shaped open-work
clock faces. Upper stage has tall 5-bay arcade to each face, of alternate
narrow and wider pointed openings with heavily moulded heads and slim
shafts; narrow arches blank, wide arches open with louvres. Straight
dentilled parapet with moulded coping and square pyramidal lantern at
south-west angle. Set-back buttresses at all angles of church. Nave and
aisles of 5 bays defined by buttresses and pilaster strips, flanking pointed
plate-traceried windows under continuous hoodmoulds. Tripartite pointed
west window with geometrical tracery to middle opening. 3 lancets to east
gable end. Pointed nave arcades have round piers and alternate round and
octagonal moulded capitals. Timber wall-posts rise from corbels above
clearstorey sill bands, to barrel roof. Chancel arch of 2 orders springs
from moulded capitals of compound responds set on corbels. Blind,
trefoil-headed timber arcading applied to wall tops below chancel eaves.
Good late C19 and early/mid C20 stained glass to east window and south
aisle, including work by D. Marion Grant, E.L. Armitage and Messrs L. &
D. 1940/41. Heavily carved, painted and gilded oak altar has figures of
angels and lamb within arcaded antependium. Similar reredos, with figures
of saints, angels and Resurrected Christ, has 4-panelled sections to either
side painted with figures of saints. Octagonal stone font drum and pedestal
with 4 marble shafts and relief ornamentation to panelled sides of bowl and
pedestal. Dwarf brick area wall with chamfered stone copings, iron railings
and gates, to west, north and east sides of church.


Listing NGR: NZ5072531427

Source: English Heritage

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