Christ Church Church Hall

NZ 15 SW CONSETT

1809- /6/10002 CHURCH STREET (West Side) Christ Church and Church Hall

• II

Parish church and church hall. 1866, by J A Cory, additions early C20. Neo-Norman style. Coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Raised and coped gables with finials. Quoins. South tower, nave, west aisle, chancel and church hall. Tower has clasping buttresses with plinths, south doorway round headed with 3 shaft and triple arches, and above a circular wheel window with 6 round headed arches. East and west faces each have a round arched doorway with round headed lancet above. Above east, west and south faces have a circular clock face over a short round arch, flanked by single round arched lancets. Above each face has 2 pairs of round arched bell openings with central shafts, sunk in panels, topped with parapet and plain corner finials. West aisle has single round headed lancet to south and north plus 4 similar windows to west. Apsidal chancel has 5 round headed lancets and a 2 round headed priest's doors. North-east church hall has three 3-light chamfered mullion windows linked by cill band, and to south single round headed doorway with plank door. East nave wall has 4 round headed lancets each within a blocked arch of the unused arcade. INTERIOR: Has 4 bay round arched arcades, that to the east blocked, with round pier and responds with scalloped capitals. Simple round chancel arch. Wooden boarded roofs, pews, choir stalls, pulpit, reredos and lecturn. Late C19 and early C20 stained glass windows.

CONSETT

NZ 15 SW PARLIAMENT STREET (North side) Christ Church

See under: Christ Church and church hall, CHURCH STREET.

Listing NGR: NZ1070350966