Church Of St Michael

NU 02 SW ILDERTON ILDERTON

13/66 Church of St. Michael 21/9/51

GV II*

Parish church. Tower partly C13. The rest late C18, slightly Gothicized late C19. Older parts dressed stone, the rest ashlar. Scottish slate roof.

Tower, nave, chancel and north vestry.

Tower: C13, 1-light west window with cusped head. Broad offset angle buttresses. Round-arched south doorway under pent roof, and battlemented upper section with simple arched bell openings, added C18.

3-bay nave with plinth, sill band and pointed-arched windows in raised surrounds with impost blocks. Thin Victorian wooden tracery. North wall blank.

l-bay chancel with polygonal apse. Late Victorian Decorated east window.

Gabled roof to nave with kneelers and splayed coping.

Interior: Nave floor is on much higher level than tower, hence the low but steeply-pointed tower arch with chamfers and plain imposts.

Round chancel arch with moulded keystone.

Small font dated 1727 with slender, elaborately-decorated shaft and cherubs' heads on bowl.

C14 grave cover in floor of tower.

History of Northumberland: Vol. VII.

Listing NGR: NU0173321851