Phoenix Squash And Leisure Centre

MIDDLESBROUGH NEWPORT ROAD, NZ 41 NE (4819) south side. 3/56 Phoenix Squash and Leisure Centre (formerly listed as 17.7.68 Church of St. Cuthbert). - II Church, 1897/1902 by Temple Moore. Converted to leisure centre 1977. Brick, faced with sandstone ashlar. Lakeland slate roofs; lead roof on south-east tower. Continuous nave and chancel, with narrow aisles, north-east, north-west and south-west porches, west narthex, south-east transept, north-east and south-east towers and east chapel and vestries. Decorated style. 5-stage north-east tower, has trefoil-headed window in lower stage, narrow square-headed windows in middle 3 stages, paired pointed bell openings with louvres, and pyramidal roof with bronze cross finial. 4-stage south-east tower has similar windows in lower and middle stages, and Caernarvon-headed bell openings below embattled parapet. Shallow trumpet-shaped roof. 5-bay nave has deep stepped-chamfered plinth and buttresses between bays. Y-tracery missing from pointed windows with renewed glazing, in chamfered surrounds with ribbed heads, under hoodmoulds. Offset gabled buttresses between 3 stepped pointed east windows with curvilinear tracery; partly-blind outer windows have shortened lights flanking the buttresses. Small rose windows in east and west gables, the west blocked. 2-storey lean-to narthex has square-headed north windows, with renewed glazing, under hoodmoulds and straight parapets. Hipped roof. Slightly-projecting, gabled north-east and north-west porches have double doors under hoodmoulds and slit lights. Projecting south-west porch has studded oak double doors of older appearance, possibly from an earlier church. Transept has similar doors in deep chamfered and ribbed surround at left under 3 stepped cusped ogee-headed niches. Late C20 right doorway. Tracery removed from window, with renewed glazing, under hoodmould in gable. 2-bay north-east chapel has half-octagonal east end and gabled buttresses between bays. 5 windows with curvilinear tracery and renewed glazing. Lower canted south-east vestry has 4 similar east windows under hoodmoulds and 3 gables. INTERIOR: altered, with first floor inserted. Ground floor divided intro compartments for courts. Remains of continuous 5-bay passage arcades with short square piers. Wood 5-bay rib-vaulted roof has carved bosses with arms, and ribs on stone corbels. Stained glass: crucifixion, by H. Victor Milner, in round east window.

Listing NGR: NZ4809619614