Description

NZ 61NE SKELTON & BROTTON HIGH STREET (north side) Brotton

3/11 Church of St. Margaret of Antioch 25.5.66 II

Church, 1888-91, by Hicks and Charlewood. Hammer-dressed snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain clay tile roofs. Decorated style with reticulated and geometric tracery . Aisled continuous nave and chancel, south porch, west baptistry/porch, and sanctus bell turret. Diagonal and angle buttresses. Nave south aisle of 5 bays separated by buttresses; doorway in western bay; 3 windows to north aisle. Gable copings define division between nave and chancel. li-bay chancel arcades. 3-stage, octagonal bell turret rising from south side of chancel arch, has gabled buttresses to alternate faces, lesenes at angles rising to crocketed pinnacles linked by pierced parapet above louvred, trefoil-headed bell openings. Flat-roofed baptistry has integral flanking porches, with straight parapet and watershots. Flat-roofed south porch has pointed doorway with carved spandrels below paired trefoil-headed windows both under continuous hoodmoulds. Parapet with cross finial over doorway. Ornate iron rainwater hopperheads, square downpipes and hollow-chamfered guttering. Interior: 5-bay nave arcades have octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches under continuous hoodmould. Moulded wall-plates with scriptural inscriptions. Panelled barrel roofs to nave and chancel, with bosses. Panelled aisle roofs with carved bosses. Pine panelling, with embattled top rail, to sill-height in aisles. Chamfered chancel arch; 2-bay chancel arcades with foliate capitals, hold glazed and panelled screens. Organ chamber and vestry in north aisle; Lady Chapel in south aisle. Carved wood choir stalls with poppy-head ends. 2-bay timber sedilia and enriched stone credence niche. Heavily- carved stone reredos of 1902: 6 pinnacled towers with figures of saints in niches, separated by 5 bays holding paintings of saints and a landscape of 1923. Tripartite arcade between nave and baptistry/porch. Stained glass in east window, 1897 by P. Bacon Bros. (London). Late C19 stained glass in south aisle by C.J. Baguley (Newcastle); east window of Lady Chapel, 1932 by Wm. Glasby (London). Good late C19 stained glass also in baptistry, west window and north aisle. 2 bells with crown hangings, one dated 1778, the other possibly medieval, in south porch.

Listing NGR: NZ6889619846

External Links

• Wikidata Q26554095

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