Church Of St Bartholomew

LONGBENTON STATION ROAD NZ 26 NE 6/12 Church of St. Bartholomew 27.2.50 G.V. II Parish church. 1790 rebuilding of medieval church; 1842 repairs; 1873-5 repairs and additions. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings; stone spire. Perpendicular style. West tower; 4-bay nave, north porch, south aisle and porch; 3-bay chancel with south aisles, north vestry. 2-stage tower has 2-light west window under 2-centred-arched belfry opening; diagonal buttresses; corner pinnacles to battlements; octagonal spire with weather-vane. South porch has deeply-recessed 2-centred-arched door under ogee drip mould. South aisle windows of 2 and 3 lights; parapets, the porch battlemented. Chancel, south aisle in similar style with 2 lancets. East window of 3 stepped lancets under head-stopped dripmould. 2-bay north vestry has elliptical-headed door. Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings; corbelled elliptical-arched braces to collar-beam roof trusses with upper king posts. 2 small cross-incised grave slabs set above aumbry and piscina. Grave slabs attached to east nave wall commemorate John Fenwick died 1581, John Killingworth and members of his family died 1587-1720; and to tower wall Edward Hindmarsh died 1708, Ralph Anderson died 1687. 1857 stone font. First World War bronze memorial slab on stone mount on west wall. Non-pictorial glass by L.C. Evetts; Cl9 glass from east window resited in south organ chamber. Sources: (Besley) Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton, Newcastle 1843; M. Hope Dodds Northumberland County History vol. XIII 1930, pp 397-400.

Listing NGR: NZ2767969131