Church Of St John The Evangelist

LONGBENTON WEST LANE (north side, off) NZ 27 SE Killingworth. 3/13 Church of St. John the 27.2.50 Evangelist. G.V. II Parish church. 1869 by E. Bassett Keeling. Sandstone, coursed and squared, with bands of red sandstone; rendered north nave wall. Welsh slate roof with stone copings. Nave and chancel with continuous shorter south aisle; 3-sided apse. West door in aisle has nook shafts and 2-centred arch under high pointed dripmould. 2-centred arches and red impost bands to cusped lancets, paired in clerestory; plate tracery to larger west and east windows. Crescents carved in coping of buttresses, clasping to nave and aisle. Interior: brick with ashlar dressings; rendered blind north arcade; ashlar lower section to chancel and plaster above. Scissor-braced roof. Stiff-leaf arcade capitals; bracketed shafts to moulded chancel arch and blind arch in north chancel wall. Priest's door under high pointed crocketed hood-mould. Stencilled decoration to chancel roof. Chancel floor of tiles and Frosterley marble contains brass memorial to first vicar, J. S. Blair, died 1890. Historical note: the crescent is the emblem of the Dukes of Northumberland.

Listing NGR: NZ2793070992