Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155072
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1155072
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT
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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 CUTHBERT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsdon
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 93647 93281
Details
ELSDON ELSDON NY 9393 19/16 Church of St. Cuthbert 21.10.53
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Parish church. C12, C14 and C16 or early C17. Restored 1837 and again in 1877 by F.R. Wilson. Random rubble and squared stone with Welsh slate roof.
Nave with bellcote, aisles, transepts with west aisles, chancel and vestry.
Nave: C19 south porch and flanking C19 Decorated windows. Low buttress in south-west corner probably part of cut-back walls of earlier wider aisles. West end has large C19 window in projecting walling which rises to support bellcote. Low flanking buttresses are remnants of former tower (cf interior).
Transepts: the aisles are later additions (see the C14 angle buttress with roll mouldings, now embedded in the north wall). C19 south window with jambs of original window to left.
Chancel: C14 priest's door and three C14 windows, each of different pattern. East end C19.
Gabled roofs with cross finials. Elaborate bellcote of c.1720 with 2 tiers of ball finials and stone spirelet.
Interior: In west wall a high blocked tower arch with hoodmould of heavy square section - probably C12 re-set as pointed arch. 4-bay nave arcades; C12 west responds. Elsewhere C14 arches with octagonal piers and moulded capitals; 2nd south pier has foliage carving in the capital; double-chamfered arches. Transept piers are square with chamfered edges, the stops carved with tracery or figures; double-chamfered arches dying into the imposts - the outer order dying much higher than the inner. Similar chancel arch. Transept arcades similar to nave. Very narrow aisles and transept aisles with quadrant tunnel vaults and very thick outer walls; probably a C16 or C17 rebuilding. Corbels for roof timbers of earlier aisles visible below vaults.
C14 sedilia in chancel. Trefoiled piscina in south transept. Medieval grave covers in chancel south window, 2 in south transept, above south door, south aisle west window, 4 in north transept. Roman tombstone in north aisle. False hammer-beam roofs by F.R. Wilson. Cartouche of 1741 to William Brown.
G.N. Taylor: The Story of Elsdon: Frank Graham: Newcastle. Hodgson J. : History of Northumberland: Newcastle.
Listing NGR: NY9364793281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, G N, The Story of Elsdon, ()
Crawford Hodgson, J, A History of Northumberland in Hexhamshire Part II Hexham Whitley Chapel Allendale and St John Lee and the Parish of Chollerton the Chapelry of Kirkheaton the Parish of Throcrington, (1897)
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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