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NZ 41 NE (4819)
3/56

MIDDLESBROUGH
NEWPORT ROAD (south side)
No 390, Former Church of St. Cuthbert

(Formerly listed as Phoenix Squash and Leisure Centre, previously listed as Church of St. Cuthbert).

17.7.68

II
Church, 1897/1902 by Temple Moore. Converted to leisure centre 1977. Brick, faced with sandstone ashlar. Lakeland slate roofs; lead roof on south-east tower. Continuous nave and chancel, with narrow aisles, north-east, north-west and south-west porches, west narthex, south-east transept, north-east and south-east towers and east chapel and vestries. Decorated style.

Five-stage north-east tower, has trefoil-headed window in lower stage, narrow square-headed windows in middle three stages, paired pointed bell openings with louvres, and pyramidal roof with bronze cross finial. Four-stage south-east tower has similar windows in lower and middle stages, and Caernarvon-headed bell openings below embattled parapet. Shallow trumpet-shaped roof. Five-bay nave has deep stepped-chamfered plinth and buttresses between bays. Y-tracery missing from pointed windows with renewed glazing, in chamfered surrounds with ribbed heads, under hoodmoulds. Offset gabled buttresses between three stepped pointed east windows with curvilinear tracery; partly-blind outer windows have shortened lights flanking the buttresses. Small rose windows in east and west gables, the west blocked. Two storey lean-to narthex has square-headed north windows, with renewed glazing, under hoodmoulds and straight parapets. Hipped roof. Slightly-projecting, gabled north-east and north-west porches have double doors under hoodmoulds and slit lights. Projecting south-west porch has studded oak double doors of older appearance, possibly from an earlier church. Transept has similar doors in deep chamfered and ribbed surround at left under three stepped cusped ogee-headed niches. Late C20 right doorway. Tracery removed from window, with renewed glazing, under hoodmould in gable. Two bay north-east chapel has half-octagonal east end and gabled buttresses between bays. Five windows with curvilinear tracery and renewed glazing. Lower canted south-east vestry has four similar east windows under hoodmoulds and three gables.

INTERIOR: altered, with first floor inserted. Ground floor divided intro compartments for courts. Remains of continuous five-bay passage arcades with short square piers. Wood five-bay rib-vaulted roof has carved bosses with arms, and ribs on stone corbels. Stained glass: crucifixion, by H. Victor Milner, in round east window.

Listing NGR: NZ4809619614

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