Church Of St Michael And All Angels

NZ34NW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING BROADWAY (east side)

7/18 Church of St. Michael 26.4.50 and All Angels (formerly listed as G.V. St Michael's Church) I

Parish church. Late C12 and C13 chancel; C14 nave arcades and west wall; C15 and C19 vestries; C19 aisles, porch, upper-stage of tower. Alterations to tower probably by Hardwick. Sandstone; roof of Westmorland slate. 4-bay nave, north and south aisles and south porch; 2-bay transepts; chancel with south vestry and a second south-east vestry of 2 storeys. Buttresses diagonal to chancel and tower, angle to transepts and nave. Pinnacled tower of 2 stages; crenellations to vestry; steep-pitched roofs have overlapping stone coping to nave gable, flat to chancel and transepts. Interior : 4-bay nave arcades have double-chamfered arches and 8-shaft columns with fillets. 6-bay chancel has small round-headed door in north wall with tympanum, 8 lancet windows on south. Octagonal font. Monuments in south transept: chest tomb of Bernard Gilpin, died 1583, with strapwork decoration and arms; brass to Margery Bellasis - her children, kneeling - died 1587; wall tomb with C13 effigy of knight; and another effigy of a knight. Grave slabs in floor have arms of Ralph Carr of Cocken Hill died 1709; of Nicholas Conyers High Sheriff of Durham died 1686. Source: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, series 3, volume V, 45-62

Listing NGR: NZ3418649853