Church of St. Aidan

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NZ 15 SW 6/70

CONSETT Blackhill LABURNUM STREET (West side) Church of St.Aidan

GV II

Parish church. 1885 by Oliver and Leeson, on site given by Consett Iron Company; tower added and dated 1903 on panel in porch. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south-west tower porch; transepts; chancel with north organ loft and south vestry. Early English style. Two-stage tower has boarded double door in chamfered two-centred arch with dripmould; paired cusped, two-light belfry openings with tracery have drip moulds and are in panels under corbel tables; broach spire has large lucarnes. Lancet windows, four stepped in west front over four small cusped lights; plate-tracery three-light east window under vesica; transepts have paired rectangular lights in paired gables. Blocked north-west door. Buttresses to transepts, nave and west end. Steeply-pitched roofs, slightly lower on chancel, with decorative ridge tiles and stone cross finials. Slender central fleche with glazed lantern.

Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; panelled chancel; arch-braced roof has collared laminated trusses on stone corbels; painted panelled roof in chancel, with symbols of Trinity and Gothic decoration. Paired double-chamfered two-centred transept arches on corbels and round columns with nail-head. Similar high chancel arch on moulded corbels. Chamfered rerearches and organ arch; continuous sill string, stepped to east wall of south transept and continuing as drip over opening to vestry. Shouldered arch to vestry from chancel. Rood screen, chancel panelling and reredos dated 1935. Stone steps and pedestal to Gothic wood pulpit. Square stone font on stone pedestal and four granite shafts. Early C20 glass, in memory of first vicar and of John Seymour Lee; other windows probably original clear and tinted glass in simple geometrical leading. Brass plaque in blocked north-west door commemorates founding of parish in 1884 and laying of foundation stone in 1885.

Listing NGR: NZ1014051564