Church Of Cuthbert

The Church of Cuthbert is a Grade II* listed building located in Aldingham. The south arcade dates back to around 1190, while the chancel was constructed around 1300. The church features a west tower in the Decorated style, with aisles added between 1845 and 1846. It is built from stone rubble, with the nave aisles and tower roughcast and ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs. The nave includes four-bay aisles that are covered by catslide roofs. The aisles have straight-headed windows with two ogee-headed lights, and the east windows are also notable.

The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and features a chamfered west entrance with a hood that has one stop. Above this entrance is a three-light window with Perpendicular tracery, and the tower has two-light straight-headed bell openings, with the northern opening being pointed. The tower is topped with a coped embattled parapet and angle pinnacles. The chancel has a coped gable and is flanked by buttresses that support a three-light window. The south elevation includes a two-light pointed window with a transom, a trefoil-headed entrance adorned with dog-tooth decoration, and a 17th-century three-light straight-headed window with colonettes. The north side features a three-light straight-headed window with Perpendicular tracery, and there is a gabled vestry with a two-light east window.

Inside, the tower has diagonal buttresses flanking the arch. The church features four-bay arcades; the south arcade has round and octagonal piers with waterleaf capitals and stepped round arches, while the north arcade, dating from the 19th century, has octagonal piers and single-chamfered arches. The wide chancel arch consists of two orders resting on corbel heads. The interior includes box pews and a squint from the south aisle to the chancel. A round font, possibly from the 12th century, is reeded and has a later base with clustered shafts. The chancel contains a piscina on the south wall and a late 17th-century communion rail with a moulded design and turned balusters. The north wall features a Gothic memorial to Reverend J. Stonard, who died in 1869, created by J.B. Robinson.