All Saints Church, New Shildon (Shildon)
Parish church. 1868-9 by J.P. Pritchett with early C20 narthex. Rock-faced dressed sandstone and brick-lined interior. Graduated green slate roofs; narthex has Welsh slate roof. North-west tower; nave with western narthex; chancel with eastern apse and north and south vestries. Early English style with chamfered plinth and plate-tracery windows.
Tall and elaborate square-plan tower,with octagonal broach spire,adjoins north- west bay of nave. Angle-buttressed lower stage has pointed-arched north doorway and small lancets above. Middle, belfry stage has louvred lancets in crocketed gablets with prominent gargoyles. Spire has 4 bands of stone fish-scale tiles.
Buttressed 5-bay nave has 2-light plate-tracery windows under pointed arches with alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. West end has large sexfoil window. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof with flat-coped gables. Buttressed, triple-gabled narthex has central quatrefoil flanked by groups of 3 lancets.
Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel has buttressed, semicircular apse with 3 lancets; datestone (April 13th 1868) beneath north-eastern lancet. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof.
Vestries have low, monopitch roofs with coped ends. North vestry has pair of trefoil-headed lancets and a stepped lateral stack.
Plain, painted interior. Nave roof has 4 principal trusses with arch-braced collars. Tall and wide, pointed chancel arch has roll moulding and hoodmould on headstops. (1)
Known to contain a number of features dedicated as war memorials (2-3).
Tall and elaborate square-plan tower,with octagonal broach spire,adjoins north- west bay of nave. Angle-buttressed lower stage has pointed-arched north doorway and small lancets above. Middle, belfry stage has louvred lancets in crocketed gablets with prominent gargoyles. Spire has 4 bands of stone fish-scale tiles.
Buttressed 5-bay nave has 2-light plate-tracery windows under pointed arches with alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. West end has large sexfoil window. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof with flat-coped gables. Buttressed, triple-gabled narthex has central quatrefoil flanked by groups of 3 lancets.
Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel has buttressed, semicircular apse with 3 lancets; datestone (April 13th 1868) beneath north-eastern lancet. Chamfered eaves band and very steeply-pitched roof.
Vestries have low, monopitch roofs with coped ends. North vestry has pair of trefoil-headed lancets and a stepped lateral stack.
Plain, painted interior. Nave roof has 4 principal trusses with arch-braced collars. Tall and wide, pointed chancel arch has roll moulding and hoodmould on headstops. (1)
Known to contain a number of features dedicated as war memorials (2-3).
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Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
First World War (1914 to 1918)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
First World War (1914 to 1918)
Second World War (1939 to 1945)
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