Church of Holy Saviour is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Church.
Church of Holy Saviour
- WRENN ID
- fading-alcove-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Holy Saviour, Ponteland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 117 750
- Coordinates
- 55.06997, -1.81808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Holy Saviour is a Church of England chapel of ease built in 1868, as indicated on the vestry, and was a gift from Miss Jane Anne Bates of Milbourne Hall. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a Lakeland slate roof, primarily designed in the Geometric style. The church includes a porch-tower with a spire, a nave, a chancel, and a vestry.
The porch-tower has a pointed-arched doorway topped with a gablet and a niche containing a seated Christ. Above this is a clock stage and a second-floor bell stage, which features 2-light bell openings adorned with waterleaf capitals and a pierced quatrefoil above, all framed by dogtooth detailing. The tower culminates in a broach spire, and on its west side, there is a two-storey round stair turret with pierced quatrefoils and a conical stone roof.
The nave consists of three bays with cusped lancets and a string course that rises over the windows and continues to the chancel, where it drops to form a sill string. The two-bay chancel contains one 2-light Geometric window and one cusped lancet, flanked by two large offset buttresses and featuring a three-light Geometric window on the east side. A lean-to vestry on the north side has a datestone and the initials of the donor, as well as a tall corniced chimney.
The gabled roof is finished with flat coping and foliate cross finials. Inside, the church boasts panelled wood ceilings and a good selection of contemporary Gothic wood furnishings, including a lectern, pulpit, and choir stalls. There are brass and wrought-iron altar rails, and the reredos is a stone replica of The Last Supper. Tall twisted lamp standards, which were once used for gas, are attached to the pew ends, and there is a round font with a crocketed base.
Local climate
Church of Holy Saviour receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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