Church of St. Aidan - Blackhill - List Entry

  • Description

    Parish church. 1885 by Oliver and Leeson, on site given by Consett Iron Company; tower added and dated 1903 on panel in porch. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south-west tower porch; transepts; chancel with north organ loft and south vestry. Early English style. Two-stage tower has boarded double door in chamfered two-centred arch with dripmould; paired cusped, two-light belfry openings with tracery have drip moulds and are in panels under corbel tables; broach spire has large lucarnes. Lancet windows, four stepped in west front over four small cusped lights; plate-tracery three-light east window under vesica; transepts have paired rectangular lights in paired gables......
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    Historic England
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    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260991
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    Added by: Simon Cotterill
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