Listed building outline

Church Of St John The Baptist

Field Value Fact links
Reference 1041990 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name Church Of St John The Baptist Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Northumberland County Council no fact link
Start date 1969-12-31 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1969-12-31 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.820929 55.37602, -1.821147 55.375989, -1.821142 55.375978, -1.821197 55.37597, -1.821186 55.375945, -1.821203 55.37594, -1.821183 55.375893, -1.821101 55.375906, -1.821095 55.375894, -1.82106 55.375899, -1.821049 55.375872, -1.820977 55.375882, -1.820989 55.37591, -1.820885 55.375925, -1.82089 55.375935, -1.820752 55.375955, -1.820774 55.376005, -1.820913 55.375985, -1.820929 55.37602))) Facts
Point POINT (-1.821 55.375952) Facts
Notes EDLINGHAM EDLINGHAM VILLAGE NU 10 NW 14/114 Church of St. John the Baptist 31.12.69 GV I Parish Church. Nave probably mid-Cll, partly rebuilt early C12; chancel later C12; north arcade c.1190; tower c.1300; C14 south window and tomb recess in nave; north aisle rebuilt C15; south porch probably C17; various C18 sash windows, with wood tracery inserted at 1902 restoration; C19 vestry and 1864 east window. Nave large roughly-squared stone with south-west quoins (perhaps re-used grave stones) up to 2 metres long; other parts squared stone; cut dressings. Low- pitched felted roofs to nave and chancel; other roofs Welsh slate. West tower; nave with north aisle and vestry, south porch; chancel. 3-stage west tower has stepped chamfered plinth, band above plinth, and chamfered set-back below squat belfry. Lower stage has small rebated lancet on south only, the upper stages slatted chamfered loops except on east, which shows weathering of old high-pitched roof. Low pyramidal roof. Gabled south porch with chamfered plinth; round arch with keystone and chamfered imposts, below small square window flanked by re-set head corbels. Stone benches and barrel vault springing from chamfered band. C12 doorway has round arch with bold roll moulding and billet hood, on jamb shafts with block capitals and moulded bases; within arch is C17 doorway with flat-pointed head and sunk spandrels, and vertical-panelled door. Above porch a chamfered loop; to either side square-headed C18 windows and further east a pointed double- chamfered C14 window arch, all with later wood tracery. North aisle has blocked north door with chamfered pointed arch; and square-headed east window. Chancel has C18 south window with pointed arch and raised stone surround; and large Romanesque-style east window with round arch, zigzag, and jamb shafts. Interior: Plastered. 4-bay north arcade of round arches with chamfered inner and square outer orders. Round piers and semicircular responds have moulded capitals with vertical lines of nail-head to imitate scallops, and moulded bases with nail-head. Round C12 chancel arch, stepped towards nave, on chamfered imposts carried back along east wall of nave; low stone screen has central opening with chamfered and rebated jambs. South wall of nave shows segmental-arched tomb recess,holding pre-Conquest cross fragment with vinescroll and C14 cross slab, and remains of several blocked windows. Cll west front, now within tower, shows centre door with slightly-recessed semicircular tympanum, mutilated round-headed window above and circular opening in apex of former gable. In north aisle a chamfered band below east window; and rear arch of C12 west window above vestry door. Chancel has small piscina with pointed moulded arch, and pointed recess further west. Chancel roof has later boarding on grid of stop-chamfered tie-beams and longitudinal members, probably C17. Early C20 tie-beam roof to nave. Fittings mostly of similar date, except for balustraded communion rails of 1726. Octagonal medieval font (inscribed '1701') on circular stepped base. Cll/C12 cross slab in aisle and C14 slab as threshold to south door. C18 wall monuments and hatchments at west end of nave and east end of chancel; 1723 ledger stone just inside south door. East window glass, 'The Sea Gave up the Dead which were in it' to Lewis de Crespigny Buckle, who perished on the S.S. Nemesis. , Facts
Listed building 1041990 Facts

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