Church Of St Ebba

The Church of St. Ebba is a parish church located in Beadnell Village, dating from around 1740 and enlarged in 1797. It underwent partial Gothicization around 1860, possibly by F.R. Wilson of Alnwick, and was largely altered internally in 1889. The church is constructed of ashlar stone with a Lakeland slate roof and features a west porch-tower, nave, chancel, and vestries.

The 18th-century west tower includes a 19th-century doorway with a multi-moulded surround and a decorative band above. It has two-light bell openings with Y-tracery and a clock above. The tower is topped with a concave cornice and large angle gargoyles, and features a short ashlar spire with an octagonal pierced screen. The base of the spire is said to be from 1860 but is likely of 18th-century Gothic style, with a pair of lancets on each side and a quatrefoil above each. The buttresses between the lancets have grotesque heads at mid-point and short crocketed finials.

Flanking the tower are lean-to vestries built of 18th-century masonry, featuring plinths and bands, as well as two-light windows from 1889. The nave has four bays with a plinth and sill band. On the south side, there are three 18th-century windows with Y-tracery and one Geometric window from 1860. The north side has windows from 1860, with small lancets in the outer bays and centre bays featuring odd Geometric tracery under gables with cross finials. Between the centre bays is a buttress capped by a gabled tabernacle with four colonettes. The chancel has a later 19th-century lean-to vestry on the south side, a three-light Decorated east window, and a two-light Geometric north window.

Inside, the church features an Arts-and-Crafts screen in a 15th-century style, stained glass from 1854 in the chancel, and from 1851 on the south side of the nave, with one window signed by William Wailes and others possibly by him as well, along with one signed by Baguley of Newcastle. There is also a 1939-45 war memorial window by H.E. Nuttgens of High Wycombe, and a panelled barrel-vaulted ceiling.