Description

ORMESBY CHURCH LANE west side NZ 51 NW (off) 6/31 Church of St. Cuthbert G.V. II

Church, 1875 by Hicks and Charlewood, incorporating re-dressed masonry from C12 church, on Anglo Saxon foundation. North porch 1887/89, reconstructed 1969. Late C19 vestry and organ chamber. Tower 1907. Dressed sandstone, with medieval grave covers and carved fragments in south walls. Welsh slate roofs on nave and vestry; Lakeland slate on organ chamber, felt on chancel and oak shingles on spire. West tower; nave with north aisle, north porch and south-west vestry; chancel with south organ chamber. Decorated style with plate and reticulated tracery. 3-stage tower has moulded plinth, angle buttresses and string courses between stages. Pointed west window in lower stage; pointed bell openings with louvres; other windows rectangular; all with tracery and hoodmoulds. Embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles. Octagonal needle spire with iron weather vane. 4-bay nave and aisle, and 2-bay chancel, with continuous chamfered plinth. Projecting porch has boarded double doors in pointed moulded surround under hoodmould and enriched spandrels. Deep moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses and embattled parapet with cross finial. Nave and aisle have 2-light windows under hoodmoulds, between offset buttresses. Low parapets with roll-moulded copings. Chancel has pointed windows, embattled parapet and cross finial. Lean-to organ chamber.

Interior: 4-bay pointed, double-chamfered north arcade has round and octagonal columns and continuous hoodmoulds. Pointed tower arch of 3 moulded orders, the inner on tapered corbels. Similar chancel arch of 2 orders. Wide chamfered, pointed vestry opening, springing at floor level, holding wood screen. Shallow roof trusses have short crown posts, through purlins, ties with curved braces and wall posts on corbels. Timber fan-vaulted tower ceiling with Tudor-rose bosses. Sanctuary has marble floor, carved wood panelling and retable with 4 figures of saints under enriched pinnacled canopies, 1889. Early/mid C20 carved choir benches. Oak rood screen, c.1914, with slender columns, drop tracery, brattishing and cross finial. Richly-carved octagonal stone pulpit of 1897. Carved octagonal stone font on short column and 2 steps. Early C20 2-tier lantern cover with crocketed spire, by H.L. Hicks. Stained glass: east window probably by Wailes c.1871, west window 1875, north aisle c.1900 by H.A. Hymers (Chelsea), south-east window in nave 1875. Sculptured late C14 grave cover depicting recumbent female figure, on late C19 base. 2 painted bequest boards in vestry.

Listing NGR: NZ5309216709

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