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Church of St Ives

A Grade II Listed Building in Leadgate, County Durham

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Latitude: 54.8612 / 54°51'40"N

Longitude: -1.7985 / 1°47'54"W

OS Eastings: 413031

OS Northings: 551844

OS Grid: NZ130518

Mapcode National: GBR HDW7.F5

Mapcode Global: WHC47.B2TN

Plus Code: 9C6WV662+FH

Entry Name: Church of St Ives

Listing Date: 4 July 1986

Last Amended: 4 August 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1240559

English Heritage Legacy ID: 439035

ID on this website: 101240559

Location: Leadgate, County Durham, DH8

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Leadgate and Medomsley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leadgate

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Leadgate

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 15 SW CONSETT ST. IVES ROAD
Church of St. Ives
6/77
4/7/86
II
Parish church. 1865-8 by C.H. Fowler; addition of north vestry porch 1879.
Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof with stone
gable copings. Aisled nave with south porch; chancel with south aisle and
north vestry. Gabled porch has side buttresses flanking open 2-centred-arched
doorway of 2 orders, with impost string; side benches; inner 2-centred arch
containing double oak doors with wrought iron hinges, crescent-shaped with leaf
terminals. Cusped lancets in aisles, paired except for groups of 3 at east end
of north and west end of south aisles; 6-foil clerestory windows in panels.
Buttressed west front has 2 tall cusped lancets under large 12-foil light;
3-light east window under drip mould; north aisle has buttress and turret at
east end. Steeply-pitched roof with copings on kneelers; tall gabled bellcote.
Lower chancel roof; stone cross finials.
Interior: coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; scissor-truss nave
roof, panelled chancel roof. 5-bay arcades have chamfered 2-centred arches,
with continuous dripmould, on round piers with square capitals. High chancel
arch on long flatcorbelled shafts has chamfered inner arch on shafts with
crocket capitals. Shouldered aisle rere-arches except for segmental arches
behind the triple lights; 2-centred rere-arches to clerestory and lancets.
Choir stalls with Gothic tracery from St. Oswald's, Gateshead; similar style
rood screen and pulpit. Altar of Caen stone. Chancel floor tiled in medieval
patterns. One step to chancel, 2 to sanctuary and 2 to altar. C20 altar in
front of screen. Tub font with many-moulded base.
Early C20 glass includes war memorial windows in south aisle showing soldiers
in battle, and Saints Hilda and Mary of Bethany; triple window in south aisle
has heraldic devices and St. Ives. Many windows clear, with original geometrical
glass.


Listing NGR: NZ1303151844


This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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