Church of St Cuthbert is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. Church.

Church of St Cuthbert

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Cuthbert, Shibdon Road
OS grid reference
NZ 184 633
Coordinates
54.96473, -1.7136
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Cuthbert is a parish church built between 1844 and 1845 by G. Pickering, with the chancel added from 1860 to 1862 by J.E. Watson, and the tower completed in 1869. It was re-roofed and restored in 1882. The church is constructed of snecked sandstone with a plinth and ashlar dressings, and its roof is made of Welsh slate with overlapping stone gable copings. The architectural styles are Early English and Decorated.

The church features a nave with a large north aisle, a chancel with a north porch, and a west tower. The chancel has paired lancet windows with cusping beneath a dentil table. The battlemented tower includes corner and side spirelets, as well as angle gargoyles. The south entrance is a pointed arch with nook shafts and a head-stopped drip mould. The upper stages of the tower contain a 2-light window, a clock set in a round stone surround within a 2-light opening, and a 2-light belfry opening with quatrefoil bands. The chancel has a 4-light east window with bar tracery, while the north porch features an east door in a chamfered pointed arch beneath a cusped triangular window, along with a 2-light window to the right. The roofs are steeply pitched.

Inside, the church has round piers supporting double-chamfered 4-bay nave arcades, with plastered walls up to a boarded dado. The arch-braced roof rests on flower-decorated corbels. Notable memorials include a priest's stall, Frosterley marble steps, and terrazzo in front of the chancel, as well as a chancel screen from 1899 dedicated to Reverend M. Green. There is a pulpit from 1902 commemorating the South African War and the Coronation of Edward VII, a Boer War brass tablet in the south aisle, a First World War memorial font, and a Second World War memorial tablet.

Local climate

Church of St Cuthbert receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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