Church of St Mark is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Church.
Church of St Mark
- WRENN ID
- iron-frieze-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mark, West Allen
- OS grid reference
- NY 782 524
- Coordinates
- 54.86637, -2.34036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mark is a parish church built in 1871 by Haswell. It is constructed of rubble with dressings and features a blue slate roof adorned with two purple bands and orange ridge tiles. The building has a rectangular shape with a canted apse, a south porch that connects to a south-west tower, and a small vestry on the north side.
The tower is stepped in three stages and includes paired belfry openings with central shafts and chamfered pointed arches above the lintels. It is topped with a square stone spire that has two bands of tegulated ornament. The projecting porch features a pointed arch made up of two chamfered orders, and to the east of the porch are three lancet windows. The west end of the church has two stepped buttresses, with the northern set positioned between two trefoiled lancets that share a continuous hoodmould. The east end has a trefoiled lancet on each face of the apse. On the north side, there are four lancets to the west of the vestry, which has a boarded door on the west and a two-light window with pointed heads above the lintels on the north side.
Inside, the church has no structural divisions and features arch-braced roof trusses supported by moulded corbels. The furnishings are simple, including a font designed in the style of the 13th century.
Local climate
Church of St Mark sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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