Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371166
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371166
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, NORTHUMBERLAND 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 JOHN THE BAPTIST, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alnmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 24658 10563
Details
NU 2410 ALNMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND STREET (East side)
20/19 Church of St. John The Baptist
GV II
Parish church, 1876 with south chapel added 1880 to accommodate boys from Seabank School. Snecked tooled stone with tooled ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roofs, blue on nave and purple on eastern parts. Plan: Aisleless 4-bay nave with west tower over porch; chancel with transeptal south chapel, north organ chamber/vestry and canted apse. Simple C13 style.
Chamfered plinth; 3-stage tower has stepped diagonal buttresses and chamfered bands. On north and south are diagonally-boarded double doors, with foliate hinges, under moulded arches with jamb shafts and foliage-carved hoodmould stops; 2-light west window. 2nd stage has single lancets. Slatted belfry openings with Y-tracery. Moulded brackets at square base of octagonal stone spire with gabled lucarnes and moulded finial. Side walls of nave have lancets, paired in end bays; stepped buttresses between. Coped east gable on moulded kneelers, with ring-cross finial. South chapel has paired lancets and slit in gable above. Apse has small angle buttresses and lancets with moulded arches on jamb shafts with carved capitals; wrought-iron cross finial. Organ chamber/vestry has diagonal buttresses and 2 lancets under gable with cross finial; west diagonally-boarded door with foliate hinges.
Interior; Plastered. Double-chamfered chancel arch on carved corbels; similar arches to south chapel and organ chamber/vestry. Panelled marble dado to apse. Nave has arch-braced collar-beam roof on moulded corbels; chancel has similar but painted roof on carved corbels. Octagonal moulded font. Carved pulpit as memorial to Harold Kenyon Temperley, killed in Flanders 1917. Kempe glass in apse windows; later C2O Evetts glass in nave and west window.
Listing NGR: NU2465810563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236909
- 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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