Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1371135
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1371135
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1949
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amble By the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 26506 04454
Details
AMBLE CHURCH STREET NU 2604 (North side) 13/45 Church of St. Cuthbert 1.6.49 GV II
Parish church, 1870, by Messrs. Austin and Johnson of Newcastle; south vestry 1929. Roughly-tooled snecked stone with tooled ashlar dressings; roof of small red clay tiles. 4-bay aisleless nave and 2-bay chancel with vestries on north and south. Mid-C14 style.
Chamfered plinth; moulded sill strings and linking hoodmoulds. Stepped buttresses between bays, flanking west end and as angle buttresses at east end. South wall of nave shows boarded double doors in west bay, in double- chamfered arch with ogee hood carried up to a finial between 2 quatrefoil panels, in a broad flat-topped projection. Both sides of nave show 2-light windows with varying tracery; a pair of similar but taller windows set high in west end. On east end a stepped gabled bellcote pierced by two large trefoil-headed arches with a smaller above and between. Slightly-taller chancel has 3- and 2-light south windows, the former above a flat-roofed vestry with 2- and 3-light mullioned windows, and a 3-light east window. Pent-roofed north vestry with small lancets. All gables have moulded coping and finial crosses.
Interior: all walls tooled-squared stone. Double-chamfered chancel arch and similar but smaller arch to organ. Trefoiled piscina and segmental-pointed sedile in chancel. Minton tiles in sanctuary. Carved openwork chancel screen. Moulded font on quatrefoil shaft. Nave roof has collar-beam trusses with upper king-posts and struts; long arch braces, in alternate trusses, on moulded stone corbels; ashlar pieces at eaves.
Listing NGR: NU2650604454
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 236715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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