Description

NZ 15 SW CONSETT A 692
(South side)
Brooms
6/1
Church of Our
Blessed Lady and
St. Joseph
II
Roman Catholic parish church. 1866-9 by Edward Welby Pugin. Snecked sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Aisled nave with north porch; chancel.
Decorated style. Boarded double doors with elaborate iron hinges, in chamfered
and moulded 2-centred arch in east face of buttressed, gabled porch; 3 lancets
under 6-foil light in north gable. Buttressed aisles have 5 large lancets in
south; 4 in north and porch at west end; 6-foil lights in east ends of aisles.
Massive west buttresses flank 5 small windows; large 6-foil light in west gable.
Dripmoulds, most with block stops. Chancel with 3-sided apse has 5 groups of 3
cusped lancets. Steeply-pitched roofs, pent over aisles, with small cross gable
over roundel in each eastern bay. Stone cross finials at west and on cross
gables; small east gabled dormer and wrought iron cross finial.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings and arcades; scissor-braced
nave roof with struts to principals; all rafters on deeply-moulded corbels.
Panelled chancel roof on marble shafts with C13-style capitals and angel corbels.
Arcades, each east bay containing 2 narrow arches, have 2-centred moulded arches
on alternate round and octagonal piers. Rerearches to all windows. Wide
segmental-arched west gallery. High quality Gothic-style Caen stone altar and
reredos; wood pulpit and side altar in Gothic style. Most glass original, in
simple geometric patterns; west window has pictorial glass, with Lamb in centre.

Listing NGR: NZ1372752112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26639304

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