Church of Wilfrid

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NZ 08 SW 8/76

KIRKWHELPINGTON KIRKHARLE Church of St. Wilfrid

(Formerly listed as Church of St. Wilfred)

10.11.51

GV I

Church. C14, C18, restored 1884. Dressed stone; west porch and vestry ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Nave, chancel, west porch and vestry.

C18 west porch has battened door and round-headed west window. Lean-to vestry on north side has twelve-pane sash window. Two bay nave has two- and three-light windows with Victorian Decorated tracery in C14 arched openings with original labels. Two bay chancel has priest's door with two continuous hollow chamfers. Small 'low side' window to left with cusped ogee head. Similar window on north wall. Other windows on south side are three-light with Victorian reticulated tracery in original openings. Chancel north windows have genuine C14 reticulation. East end rebuilt with large five-light reticulated window. Top two courses of wall added C19. Gabled roof with kneelers and flat coping. Early C18 west bellcote with pilasters and heavily-moulded round-arched cornice. Porch and vestry have open-pedimented gable and square stone chimney.

Interior has chancel arch of two continuous chamfers. Two trefoiled piscinas in nave. Chancel has C14 sedilia with trefoiled heads and similar piscina with petalled drain on fluted stem. Victorian hammer-beam roofs. Victorian chancel screen, pulpit and altar rails with Decorated tracery. Elegant Victorian bench ends with carved panels and leaf forms. Perpendicular font from old Church of All Saints, Newcastle: octagonal with shields.

Listing NGR: NZ0116582639