Church Of St John The Divine

ACKLINGTON ACKLINGTON VILLAGE NU 20 SW (South side) 7/8 Church of St. John the Divine GV II

Parish Church. 1860 by James Deason, for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked tooled stone with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roofs. 4-bay nave with north and south porches; chancel with north vestry. C13 style. Chamfered plinth with small trefoil vents beneath each window. West end shows two 2-light windows with cinquefoiled round light above, flanked by large stepped buttresses; single lancets to aisle ends. Steep gable, of lower pitch above aisles, carrying tall gabled bellcote with twin pointed arches. Gabled north and south porches with double-chamfered arches, the inner order on colonnettes, and square-headed loops in returns; above arch of north porch an ornate wrought-iron lamp bracket inscribed 'VICTORIA 1887'. Within porches stone benches and similar inner doorways have boarded and-studded double doors with foliate hinges. Single lancets to west of porches, paired lancets to east; single lancet at east end of south aisle. 2-bay chancel with single and paired trefoiled lancets in side walls, and 3 stepped lancets to east; priest's door on south. Pent-roofed vestry has extruded canted east passage with trefoil window and stone slab roof; tall chimneystack with moulded stone top. Coped gables on moulded kneelers with panelled gablets; foliate finial crosses on east gables.

Interior: Plastered. Double-chamfered nave arcades with hoodmoulds on foliage boss stops; round piers with moulded capitals and bases. Similar chancel arch on shafted jambs. High wagon roofs with ashlar pieces to rafter feet. Tiled sanctuary. Stone pulpit with quatrefoil frieze and nailhead cornice. Carved chancel screen as memorial to Sir Charles Stamp Milburn of Guyzance, d. 1917.

Listing NGR: NU2272601894