Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
peeling-ashlar-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Washington and Gateshead South MP: Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, Lamesley
OS grid reference
NZ 252 579
Coordinates
54.91525, -1.60714
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Andrew is a parish church that underwent rebuilding in 1758 on the site of a medieval church, with aisles and a west tower added in 1821. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, and features galletting on the chancel's south wall. The roof is made of Welsh slate with stone gable coping. The church includes a west tower, a nave, a chancel with a north porch, and a vestry, all designed in a Gothick style.

The tower has a north door, a three-light west window with a head-stopped drip mould beneath a clock, and two-light belfry openings. It is topped with battlements, and there is a taller octagonal stair turret with slit windows. The aisles have a cyma-moulded high sloping plinth, and the windows feature cusped arches on the transoms. Gabled and diagonal buttresses define four bays, each with battlemented parapets. The blind chancel has a four-light east window and is adorned with cross finials and a weather vane.

Inside, there is a high octagonal plinth supporting tall quatrefoil piers, which hold narrow chamfered arcades on inner shafts. The aisle galleries have had their easternmost bays removed. In 1884, the organ was transferred from the tower to the porch, and chancel fittings were added in 1893 by W. S. Hicks. A chancel screen and oak panelling were installed in 1910. There is a notable monument in white marble depicting Rachel weeping for her children, dedicated to the Honourable Frances Jane Liddell, who died in 1823. The clock commemorates the third Earl of Ravensworth, who died in 1904.

Historically, the Liddell family acquired Ravensworth in 1607, and in 1642, Thomas Liddell was created a baronet. The baronetcy was re-created in 1821.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew 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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