Church Of St Francis Of Assisi is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Church.

Church Of St Francis Of Assisi

WRENN ID
under-step-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1951
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ROCHESTER BYRNESS NT 70 SE 8/72 Church of St. Francis of Assisi 10.11.51 (formerly listed as Byrness Church)

GV II

Parish church. 1796. Restored, gothicized and chancel partly rebuilt 1884 by F.R. Wilson.

Ashlar with stone slate roof. Nave, chancel, west baptistry/vestry, north porch and west bellcote.

Two-bay nave has gabled porch to right; round-headed doorway with keystone and impost blocks. C18 round-headed nave windows with C19 Decorated tracery. One-bay chancel with 2-light Decorated east window. Gabled roofs with flat coping. Round-arched bellcote with ball finial.

Interior: inner doorway dated 1796. Otherwise all of 1884. Double-chamfered chancel arch rising from corbels bearing colonettes with waterleaf capitals. South window of 1903 commemorating the men, women and children who died during. the construction of the reservoir at Catcleugh; an adjacent brass plate records the names of 64 persons who died between 1891 and 1904. Canted timber ceiling with arched braces on stone corbels and false hammerbeams bearing crosses. Sanctuary has fine encaustic tiles with geometric patterns and symbols of the Evangelists.

Listing NGR: NT7707402336

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