Church Of St Cuthbert

NZ 16 SE BLAYDON SHIBDON ROAD (north side) 4/21 Church of St. Cuthbert

G.V. II

Parish church. 1844 - 45 by G. Pickering; chancel 1860-62 by J.E. Watson; tower 1869; re-roofed and restored 1882. Snecked sandstone with plinth and ashlar dressings; roof of Welsh slate has overlapping stone gable copings. Early English, and Decorated styles. Nave with large north aisle; chancel with north porch; west tower. Paired lancets,cusped in chancel under dentil table. Battlemented tower has corner and side spirelets, angle gargoyles. South entrance of pointed arch with nook shafts under head-stopped drip mould; upper stages have 2-light window, clock set in round stone surround in 2-light opening, 2-light belfry opening and quatrefoil bands. Chancel has 4-light east window with bar tracery; north porch has east door in chamfered pointed arch under cusped triangular window, and 2-light window at right. Steeply pitched roofs. Interior: round piers to double-chamfered 4-bay nave arcades; walls plastered to boarded dado: arch-braced roof on flower-decorated corbels. Memorials: priest's stall, Frosterley marble steps and terrazzo in front of chancel, and chancel screen, 1899 to Reverend M. Green; 1902 pulpit to South African War and Coronation of Edward VII; Boer War brass tablet in south aisle. First World War memorial font; Second World War memorial tablet.

Listing NGR: NZ1843663381

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.