Description

HURWORTH CHURCH VIEW
NZ 3010 (South side)

17/71 Church of
20/3/67 All Saints

GV II

Parish church. Partly medieval nave arcade; refaced, possibly C15 tower
heightened 1845; largely rebuilt 1831-2 by T. Tibbetts; nave aisles added
1845; transepts and chancel aisles added and church restored 1870 by J.P.
Pritchett. Tooled dressed sandstone; graduated green slate roofs. Cruciform
with aisles and west tower; chapel on north aisle; porch on south aisle.
Geometrical and Decorated styles.

Angle-buttressed, 4-stage tower has three C15 shields on west, stair turret
on north, pointed 2-light bell openings and embattled parapet with corner
pinnacles. 4-bay nave has steep roof. 2-bay north aisle and projecting
chapel at east have windows with Decorated tracery, parapets and low-pitched
roofs. Similar 4-bay south aisle with buttressed bays and gabled porch.
Taller diagonally-buttressed transepts with Geometrical-tracery windows,
parapets and low-pitched roofs. Tall 3-bay chancel, with aisles on west and
centre bays, has elaborate detailing and Geometrical-tracery windows; chancel
has steep roof with iron crest on ridge; low pent aisle roofs.

Interior. Nave: alternating round and octagonal piers supporting 4 chamfered
pointed arches; mid-height floor inserted into 3 west bays in 1985; 2 mutilated
recumbent effigies of knights in niches at west end (possibly Robert Fitzwilliam
died 1316; the other with cylindrical helmet); aedicular wall monument to
James Bland died 1769. Pointed arches into transepts. Elaborately-detailed
chancel: arch of 2 roll-moulded orders; enriched 2-bay aisle arcades, with
pointed arches on compound piers, and identical single arches on west returns
of aisles facing transepts. Arch-braced roof trusses in nave and chancel.
Rear arches with detached colonnettes. Pointed piscina, 3-arch sedilia and
encaustic-tiled floor. Crucifixion east window 1865 by Wailes. Small pre-
Conquest cross shaft fragment, with interlace, in porch.

Listing NGR: NZ3086710121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586851

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