Church Of St Mary

NZ 36 NW 7/150 18.8.47

WALLSEND CHURCHILL STREET (east side)

Willington Church of St. Mary

II

G.V. Parish church. 1876 by Austin and Johnson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave and south porch; chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Door, with elaborate hinges and handle, in triple-chamfered recess in porch; 4-bay nave has lancet windows, paired on north, paired in alternate bays on south; 2 west lancets under large roundel. Arcade and 7 lancets, partly blind, to chancel on south; 3 stepped east lancets under almond-shaped window and 3 roundels. Set-back buttresses; sill string. Roof has sanctus bellcote, cross finials. Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings; king-post roof. Inner corbelled arch to cavetto-moulded chancel arch; irregular jambs and steeply sloping sills to windows. Long sill panels in chancel. Aumbry with cusped canopy in south chancel; octagonal stone font. High quality rood screen commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; Gothic style pulpit is World War I memorial.

Listing NGR: NZ 31783 67718