Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, ROAD TO ESLINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041257
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, ROAD TO ESLINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041257
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, ROAD TO ESLINGTON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, ROAD TO ESLINGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NU0663011948
Details
WHITTINGHAM ROAD TO ESLINGTON
NU 01 SE (North side)
Whittingham Village
10/125 Church of St.
21/10/53 Bartholomew
GV I
Parish church. Saxon, C12 and C13 remains. Chancel rebuilt c.1725. Extensively
rebuilt 1840 by John Green for the Rev. Goodenough. Chancel extended and
gothicized 1871 by F.R. Wilson. Vestry added 1906.
Squared stone and ashlar. Welsh slate roof. South porch has stone slate roof.
West tower, 3-bay nave with aisles, south porch, -transepts, chancel and north
vestry.
Lower stage of tower and west end of nave are Saxon with clear long-and-short
quoins. Upper part of tower demolished 1840 and replaced in battlemented Early-
English style.
Lower part of aisle walls have C12 or C13 masonry. C14 window with cusped head
in west end of south aisle. One north aisle window with intersecting tracery
is partly original C14. Other windows, in similar style of 1840.
South porch has pointed arch on plain imposts. C18 sundial on gable. Pointed
tunnel vault inside with 2 chamfered transverse ribs.
Transepts have some C13 masonry in lower courses, largely rebuilt 1840 but in
north transept one original window, with intersecting tracery, now opens into
the vestry.
3-bay chancel has Geometric tracery.
Interior: High round-headed Saxon tower arch with unmoulded imposts. In north-
east corner of nave part of blocked arch, probably C11. South arcade C13 with
octagonal piers and moulded capitals: double-chamfered pointed arches with
dripstones rising from discs with rosettes. Eastern pier has some large dogtooth
at the springing of the arch, Western pier has broaches, responds have leafy
carving. North arcade is 1840 replacement of C12 arcade and is an exact copy
of south arcade. Chancel arch has C13 responds and arch of 1871. Door into
vestry possibly re-used priest's door with 4-centred head and continuous chamfer.
C13 or C14 piscina in south transept. Altar rails, choir stalls and pulpit by
Hicks and Charleswood, probably of 1906. East window has good unsigned glass
of 1880. 6 hatchments to members of Ravensworth family. Marble wall monument
by Craigs, in north transept, to Reginald Goodenough, killed at Sebastapol;
military emblems above the inscription.
Northumberland County History: Vol. XIV.
Whittingham Vale: David Dippie Dixon: Frank Graham. Newcastle, 1974.
Listing NGR: NU0663011948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dixon, D, Whittingham Vale, (1974)
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Alnham Chatton Chillingham Eglingham Ilderton Ingram and Whittingham The Chapelries of Lowick and Doddington, Vol. 14, (1935)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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