Roman Catholic Church of St Robert is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Church.
Roman Catholic Church of St Robert
- WRENN ID
- ghost-niche-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of St Robert, Oldgate, Morpeth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 196 860
- Coordinates
- 55.1683, -1.69244
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Robert, built in 1850, is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a Lakeland slate roof, showcasing an Early English style. The church includes a porch-tower with a spire, a nave, a chancel, and a vestry.
The porch-tower has a two-storey square lower stage, which features a multi-moulded, pointed-arched doorway, angle buttresses with niches containing saints, and lancet windows on the first floor. The corners are broached, leading to a high bell stage with a tall lancet window on each side and triple-shafted columns at the angles, topped with gablets. The tower culminates in a tall octagonal needle spire.
The six-bay nave contains lancet windows under labels with head stops, and there are buttresses between each bay. The west end features an arched door, above which are seven stepped lancets that alternate between open and blank, with shafts and shaft rings.
The chancel is two bays long and includes a three-light Decorated east window. Attached to the chancel is a single-storey vestry connected by a short linking passage, which has a Decorated three-light window flanked by two saints and niches.
Inside, the church boasts an open timber roof supported by king posts and arched braces.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of St Robert receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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