Church of St Alban
CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Alban
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALBAN, FRONT STREET
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 ALBAN, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 32020 72518
Details
SEATON VALLEY (part) FRONT STREET (north side) NZ 37 SW Earsdon. 4/26 Church of St. Alban G.V. II Parish church. 1836-7 by John and Benjamin Green; 1889 chancel. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. West tower; nave; chancel with north vestry and south porch. Early English style. Gothic-panelled double south door in tower under stepped lancet belfry openings offsets to set-back buttresses with spirelets on upper stages; central canopied pierced lancets to parapet. Buttressed, 6-bay nave and 2-bay chancel have lancets; 2-light sanctuary and 4-light east windows. Boarded porch door in 2-centred arch. Interior: plaster; gothic-traceried struts to bracketed queen-post roof, upper level ceiled. Banded quatrefoil columns support west gallery; 2-centred arch to north organ chamber. Glass: in east nave lancets: C16, possibly by Galyon Hone for Hampton Court: presented in 1874 by Lord Hastings; restored by L. C. Evetts in 1958: armorials of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Sources: L.C. Evetts "Sixteenth Century Heraldic Glass at Earsdon, Northumberland" Archaeologia Aeliana 4; XXXVII; 333-39
Listing NGR: NZ3202072518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303270
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evetts, L C, Archaeologia Aeliana in Sixteenth Century Heraldic Glass at Earsdon Northumberland, Vol. 37, (), 333-9
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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