Description

NU 2410 ALNMOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND STREET
(East side)

20/19 Church of St. John
The Baptist

GV II

Parish church, 1876 with south chapel added 1880 to accommodate boys from
Seabank School. Snecked tooled stone with tooled ashlar quoins and dressings;
Welsh slate roofs, blue on nave and purple on eastern parts. Plan: Aisleless
4-bay nave with west tower over porch; chancel with transeptal south chapel,
north organ chamber/vestry and canted apse. Simple C13 style.

Chamfered plinth; 3-stage tower has stepped diagonal buttresses and chamfered
bands. On north and south are diagonally-boarded double doors, with foliate
hinges, under moulded arches with jamb shafts and foliage-carved hoodmould
stops; 2-light west window. 2nd stage has single lancets. Slatted belfry
openings with Y-tracery. Moulded brackets at square base of octagonal stone
spire with gabled lucarnes and moulded finial. Side walls of nave have
lancets, paired in end bays; stepped buttresses between. Coped east gable
on moulded kneelers, with ring-cross finial. South chapel has paired lancets
and slit in gable above. Apse has small angle buttresses and lancets with
moulded arches on jamb shafts with carved capitals; wrought-iron cross finial.
Organ chamber/vestry has diagonal buttresses and 2 lancets under gable with
cross finial; west diagonally-boarded door with foliate hinges.

Interior; Plastered. Double-chamfered chancel arch on carved corbels;
similar arches to south chapel and organ chamber/vestry. Panelled marble
dado to apse. Nave has arch-braced collar-beam roof on moulded corbels;
chancel has similar but painted roof on carved corbels. Octagonal moulded
font. Carved pulpit as memorial to Harold Kenyon Temperley, killed in
Flanders 1917. Kempe glass in apse windows; later C2O Evetts glass in nave
and west window.

Listing NGR: NU2465810563

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Baptist Parish Church, Alnmouth at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7593755

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