List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: ST MARY LE BOW HERITAGE CENTRE
List Entry Number: 1121424
Location
ST MARY LE BOW HERITAGE CENTRE, NORTH BAILEY
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: County Durham
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: City of Durham
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 06-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 10-Mar-1988
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 110304
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH BAILEY
NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/252 St. Mary le Bow
6/5/52 Heritage Centre
(formerly listed as
Church of St.Mary-
le-Bow)
GV I
Parish church, now heritage centre. Circa 1685 rebuilding of medieval structure;
1702 tower; C19 repairs and restoration. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar plinth and dressings. West tower. 3-bay nave and narrower 2-bay chancel
with north organ chamber. Decorated chancel windows. Perpendicular east and
nave windows. 3-stage tower projects slightly and has chamfered round arch with
dropped keystone under drip mould; round-headed niche above has 2-centred-arched
drip mould; 2-light round-headed belfry openings; battlemented parapet. Stepped
buttresses, diagonal at corners with pinnacles; battlemented parapets to nave
and chancel.
Interior: plaster above high wainscoting with panels and dentilled cornice;
shallow C15 king-post roof trusses; battlemented frieze. Flat 4-centred chancel
arch springing from walls. Stone newel stair in tower. Chancel panelling of
1731 has Corinthian pilasters, cherubs' heads, crossed palms and modillioned
cornice. Panelled west gallery of 1742. Rood screen of 1707 has much leaf and
flower carving of high quality. Communion rail has fat turned balusters. Stall
ends have high relief passion-fruit and flower carving, and poppyheads. C18
font in chancel; C19 Frosterley marble font in west baptistry. Monuments
include marble slab with coat of arms of Thomas Wilkinson and members of his
family, died 1718 to 1733.
Chancery court bench, dated to reign of James I, originated in Palace Green.
Source: W. Page V.C.H. Durham III 1928, reprint 1968, 137-141.
Listing NGR: NZ2747242160
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPage, W, The Victoria History of the County of Durham, (1928), 137-41
Map
National Grid Reference: NZ 27472 42162
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