Church Of St Michael And All Angels

NZ 16 NE NEWBURN CHURCH BANK (north side) Newburn

7/26 (inset) Church of St. Michael and 21 October 1949 All Angels.

G.V. I

Parish church. Cll tower, Norman nave and chancel with later porch and windows. C19 clerestory. Cruciform with aisles clasping west tower; south porch. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; plinth to chancel, chamfered plinth to south transept and porch; graduated Lakeland slate roof with flat stone gable copings. Gabled porch contains panelled double door in moulded 2-centred arch under niche with statue. 3-stage tower has blocked round-headed west door with inserted small round- headed window; similar window above; second stage has slit opening; belfry openings round-headed containing 2 round-arched lights and central shaft. Clasping buttresses; pyramidal roof and weathervane. Renewed lancet windows, paired in 6-bay aisles, and stepped 3-light east window. Round clerestory windows. Diagonal buttresses to transepts and set-back buttresses to chancel . Interior: Plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado. Round piers with waterleaf square capitals support plain arches of north arcade; south arcade has octagonal piers, moulded capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches. C19 arches to tower aisles and to transept; double- chamfered chancel arch. Arch-braced collar and king post roof to nave; crown-post to chancel. North transept refitting in 1941 as war memorial. Chancel has tomb recess on north side. Wall monument to Thomas Longbridge of Walbottle, died 1725, on south side; classical style with bust in broken pediment. Glass in north aisle by Ballantine and Gardiner, Edinburgh, 1904; in south aisle commemorating the Hedley family and their help in establishing the bishopric of Newcastle in 1882. Source: M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland 1930, pp 118-28.

Listing NGR: NZ1667865368

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.