Church of Wilfrid
Church of Wilfrid, Kirkhale, Kirkwhelpington, NE19 2PR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1370499
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Wilfrid
- Statutory Address:
- Church of Wilfrid, Kirkhale, Kirkwhelpington, NE19 2PR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1370499
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Wilfrid
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of Wilfrid, Kirkhale, Kirkwhelpington, NE19 2PR
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 Wilfrid, Kirkhale, Kirkwhelpington, NE19 2PR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkwhelpington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01167 82640
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 February 2025 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards.
NZ 08 SW
8/76
KIRKWHELPINGTON
KIRKHARLE
Church of St. Wilfrid
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Wilfred)
10.11.51
GV I
Church. C14, C18, restored 1884. Dressed stone; west porch and vestry ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Nave, chancel, west porch and vestry.
C18 west porch has battened door and round-headed west window. Lean-to vestry on north side has twelve-pane sash window. Two bay nave has two- and three-light windows with Victorian Decorated tracery in C14 arched openings with original labels. Two bay chancel has priest's door with two continuous hollow chamfers. Small 'low side' window to left with cusped ogee head. Similar window on north wall. Other windows on south side are three-light with Victorian reticulated tracery in original openings. Chancel north windows have genuine C14 reticulation. East end rebuilt with large five-light reticulated window. Top two courses of wall added C19. Gabled roof with kneelers and flat coping. Early C18 west bellcote with pilasters and heavily-moulded round-arched cornice. Porch and vestry have open-pedimented gable and square stone chimney.
Interior has chancel arch of two continuous chamfers. Two trefoiled piscinas in nave. Chancel has C14 sedilia with trefoiled heads and similar piscina with petalled drain on fluted stem. Victorian hammer-beam roofs. Victorian chancel screen, pulpit and altar rails with Decorated tracery. Elegant Victorian bench ends with carved panels and leaf forms.
Perpendicular font from old Church of All Saints, Newcastle: octagonal with shields.
Listing NGR: NZ0116582639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239611
- 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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