Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044915
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1044915
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkwhelpington
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99653 84420
Details
NY 98 SE KIRKWHELPINGTON KIRKWHELPINGTON VILLAGE
7/82 Church of St.Bartholomew 10.11.51
GV II*
Parish church. C12 fragments. Chancel and nave largely C13 with C15 alterations. Restored 1897. Dressed stone and Lakeland slate roof. West tower, nave, chancel and south porch.
West tower of several builds. Lower masonry C12 or C13. Low, late Perpendicular west door with Tudor lintel. Buttresses of various dates C13-C16. Battlements and crocketed pinnacles Perpendicular features. Victorian 3-light bell openings with Perpendicular tracery.
Similar windows in 3-bay C13 nave. South porch, possibly C16, has plain chamfered round arch and sundial above dated 1764. South door is C13 and has 2 orders of columns, with nailhead in the capitals, and multi-moulded arch. Nave north wall has one original and one Victorian lancet.
Chancel has blocked priest's door and one lancet on south side; also large C18 12-pane sash window. East end lengthened 1897 and given 3 stepped lancets.
Gabled roof with kneelers and flat coping.
Interior has blocked tower arch with 1 order of columns, scalloped capitals and pronounced chevron mouldings in the pointed arch. This may have been chancel arch of earlier church and has C12 and C13 fragments built into wall which blocks it. C13 chancel arch with octagonal responds. Trefoiled sedilia with slender C13 shafts. C17 octagonal font using upturned C14 capital as base. Mahogany pulpit with tester, 1797. Tablet of 1743 with aedicule and coat of arms to Gawen and Mary Aynsley on chancel north wall. Several good tablets set in chancel floor. Medieval grave cover with foliated cross used as lintel of north lancet.
Archeologia Aeliana: New Series XVI 1894.
Listing NGR: NY9965384420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol. 14, (1894)
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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