Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, B 6318
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045267
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, B 6318
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045267
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, B 6318
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 CUTHBERT, B 6318
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenhead
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 66010 65345
Details
GREENHEAD B 6318 NY 66 NE (South side, off) Greenhead Village 11/82 Church of 24/11/67 St. Cuthbert II
Parish church. 1826-8 by John Dobson; 1900 chancel and organ chamber by Hicks and Charlewood; early C20 vestry. Squared stone with dressings; purple slate roofs; shingles on spire. Aisleless nave; west tower with vestry on north; chancel with organ chamber on north. Early-English style nave; chancel has Geometrical tracery windows. Angle-buttressed 3-stage tower with pointed openings including doorway on south and inserted 2-light Geometrical tracery window on west; embattled parapet with corner pinnacles and narrow octagonal- plan spire. 4-bay nave with buttressed bay divisions, lancets and steep roof with coped gable parapets. 3-bay chancel with buttressed bay divisions, sill string and 2-light windows under hoodmoulds; steep roof with coped east gable parapet. East end has angle-buttresses with gablets and a pointed 5-light window under hoodmould. Vestry above basement boiler house: 3-light mullioned window on west and steep roof hipped over north return. Organ chamber: buttressed north gable end, shouldered east doorway; steep roof.
Interior: Tall narrow pointed tower arch. Nave: late C19 wood pulpit with blind Geometrical tracery; late C19 octagonal marble font; tripartite World War I memorial on south wall; 1982 memorial window to John Edward Joicey by L.C. Evetts; roof has 5 arch-braced trusses. Chancel: pointed double-chamfered chancel arch; organ chamber behind similar arch; panelled sanctuary with blind tracery and cresting; carved reredos with 4 Evangelists in crocketed niches; compartmented barrel roof with foliage bosses.
Listing NGR: NY6601065345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240730
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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