Church Of St Ives

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.