Church of St Alban is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1948. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Alban
- WRENN ID
- sombre-gallery-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1948
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Alban, Windy Nook Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 272 609
- Coordinates
- 54.94263, -1.57678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Alban is a parish church built between 1841 and 1842 by Thomas Liddell, with additions made in 1888. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a plinth and a roof made of Welsh slate with flat stone gable coping. The church includes a nave with a south porch, a north aisle, and a north porch leading to the chancel added in 1888.
On the south front, there is a trefoil window in the gable of the porch and a shouldered door with chamfered jambs. This is flanked by two pairs of lancet windows and supported by buttresses. The lower chancel, which is set back, has two lancet windows. There are string courses at the sills and at the heads of the coped buttresses, which clasp the nave and form an angle with the chancel.
The east front features three cusped lancets with a quatrefoil above and a sill string. The north side has five lancets and a central buttress. The west front includes three lancets with a sill string and a slit window at the peak of the gable, topped by a bellcote that is corbelled out. The church is adorned with cross finials.
Local climate
Church of St Alban receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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, 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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