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: CHURCH OF ST ANNE
List Entry Number: 1292201
Location
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, MARKET PLACE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: County Durham
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Bishop Auckland
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 20-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 385722
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Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 MARKET PLACE
634-1/8/95 Church of St Anne
20/09/72
GV II
Chapel of ease, with railings and gate attached. Incorporating
community centre since 1985. On site of medieval chapel.
1846-8. Designed by William Thompson. Built by William Edgar.
Alterations 1867, and internal alterations 1893.
MATERIALS: coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth,
quoins and dressings. Graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone
gable copings.
PLAN: chancel with north organ chamber and south vestry,
aisled 4-bay nave with south porch, and west belfry.
EXTERIOR: Early English style. East elevation has 3 lancets to
chancel, boarded doors in pointed arched surround to aisle and
straight headed vestry door.
South elevation has 3-light vestry window under low gable with
stone cross finial. Other lights lancets, paired in aisles and
very long in west, with dripmoulds with head stops. Gabled
porch in 3rd nave bay has deeply moulded surround to double
boarded doors.
West elevation has stepped buttresses to clerestory height,
boarded central door in moulded surround, corbelled octagonal
belfry rising between lancets to arcaded lancet louvres and
stone spirelet. Steeply gabled roofs, lower over chancel and
pent on aisles, have stone gable copings with stone cross
finials. Railings attached to east end enclose door to chancel
aisle and have spike heads and iron gate loop.
INTERIOR plastered with ashlar arcades and dressings. Chancel
and porch waggon roofs, nave arch braced trusses with high
collar with trefoil in western apex. Dripstrings to double
chamfered pointed arches of nave arcades with moulded capitals
on octagonal piers. South arcade blocked and community centre
formed by glazed screen with filleted mullions and transoms.
Pointed chancel arch on shafts. Wider organ arches to chancel
and north aisle, the latter filled with Gothic wood screen.
FITTINGS include chancel panelling and reredos with blind
tracery and high cresting, the reredos also having painted
panels. Perpendicular tracery to organ arch. Octagonal pulpit
with brass handrails, octagonal font of painted stone dated
1892, gift of the children of the Barrington School, with C17
style carved wood cover dated 1893 gift of the teachers. Choir
pews have poppyheads and pierced flowing tracery, nave pews
have shaped ends with nailhead decoration.
Glass with heraldic devices, including arms of Bishop Cosin in
west windows, set in clear lights. East window memorial to
John Proud and his wife Ellen d.1905 & 1882, figures set in
grisaille and signed Percy Bacon Bros 11 Newman Street London.
The church paid for by public subscription, including 1,000
guineas from Bishop Maltby.
(St Anne's Bishop Auckland; A Brief Historical Sketch: Bishop
Auckland; Directory of County Durham: 1894: 328).
Listing NGR: NZ2116630116
Selected Sources
Books and journalsWhellan, , A History Topography and Directory of The County Palatine of Durham, (1894), 328
Map
National Grid Reference: NZ 21166 30116
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