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Summary

Description

Hardy and Wight, 1878; church hall, 1899. Cruciform-plan, Gothic church with hall adjoining to N. Cream sandstone squared and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Raised base course; plate traceried E chancel windows; flanking, pinnacled buttresses and chamfered architraves to paired side aisle lights; roll-moulded architraves, flanking buttresses and string course incorporating hoodmoulds to clerestory windows.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4 bay main block with side aisle adjoining to

S and stair tower to N. Steps to paired, pointed arched doorways to

2 central bays; boarded doors with wrought iron fleur-de-lys hinges; multiple moulded, pedimented doorpieces with engaged columns, foliate carving and quatrefoil roundels; small flanking pointed arched windows with carved springers to hoodmoulds; tall, pointed arched chancel windows above with smaller pointed arched and cusped window set in gablehead. Single pointed arched side aisle window to outer left;

2 stage stair tower to outer right with pointed arched 1st stage window; 2nd stage corbelled out with circular, quatrefoil window to left and slit window to right.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: 5 bay with 2 bay transepts adjoining to W and church hall to N. Paired, pointed arched side aisle windows; single clerestory windows above; paired windows to transepts with single, large, 3 light pointed arched windows above.

CHURCH HALL (E ENTRANCE ELEVATION): 2 bay hall with gabled doorway adjoining and linking with church to outer left. Pointed arched doorway; boarded door with decorative cast iron furniture; quatrefoil roundel to gablehead. Tripartite, pointed arched windows flanking central buttress to hall; small pointed arched window to gablehead.

Leaded stained glass and small paned windows. Grey slate pitched roofs with lead flashings; block skewputts.

INTERIOR: remodelled circa 1956, but some original features remain, most notably very fine braced open roof and pointed-arched nave arcades. Organ moved from original position but intact, dating from 1892. Notable collection of stained glass dating 1927-1928. Simply carved boarded pews. Gallery to E, chancel furniture and velvet reredos all introduced in 1956. Open braced roof on lesser scale to church hall.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND WAR MEMORIAL: low coped boundary wall to street with plain gatepiers. Free standing, carved Celtic cross commemorating the fallen in the Great War to NE.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Originally Mayfield Church. The internal remodelling was the work of Ian G Lindsay and was intended to transform heavy Victorian gothic into a light and simple space. The stained glass was executed by Margaret Chilton and Marjorie Kemp and the organ by Brindley and Foster.

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