Church of Wilfrid

The Church of St. Wilfrid is a Grade I listed building located in Kirkwhelpington, dating from the 14th century with 18th-century alterations and restoration in 1884. It is constructed of dressed stone, featuring an ashlar west porch and vestry, and has a Welsh slate roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west porch, and vestry.

The 18th-century west porch includes a battened door and a round-headed west window. The lean-to vestry on the north side has a twelve-pane sash window. The nave has two bays with two- and three-light windows that showcase Victorian Decorated tracery set within 14th-century arched openings, complete with original labels. The chancel, also two bays, features a priest's door with two continuous hollow chamfers, a small 'low side' window to the left with a cusped ogee head, and a similar window on the north wall. The south side has three-light windows with Victorian reticulated tracery in original openings, while the chancel's north windows retain genuine 14th-century reticulation. The east end has been rebuilt and includes a large five-light reticulated window, with the top two courses of the wall added in the 19th century. The church has a gabled roof with kneelers and flat coping, and an early 18th-century west bellcote adorned with pilasters and a heavily-moulded round-arched cornice. The porch and vestry feature an open-pedimented gable and a square stone chimney.

Inside, the church has a chancel arch with two continuous chamfers, two trefoiled piscinas in the nave, and the chancel contains 14th-century sedilia with trefoiled heads and a similar piscina with a petalled drain on a fluted stem. The interior also features Victorian hammer-beam roofs, a Victorian chancel screen, pulpit, and altar rails with Decorated tracery, as well as elegant Victorian bench ends with carved panels and leaf forms. The font, an octagonal Perpendicular style piece from the old Church of All Saints in Newcastle, is adorned with shields.