Description

NZ 06 SE PRUDHOE HIGHFIELD LANE

18/134 Church of Our Lady and
St. Cuthbert

II

R.C. Church. 1891 by Dunn, Hanson and Dunn. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof. Nave,
chancel, north transept, south vestries, south porch and south-west turret 5-bay nave
has 2-light windows with mixed Perpendicular and Flamboyant tracery. Similar tracery
to glazed sides of porch and to large 4-light nave east window. West end (ritual east)
is polygonal apse having shafted 2-light windows with Geometric tracery. Figures of
Christ and Virgin and Child in carved tabernacles beneath west window. Fine carving
also to capitals of window shafts and to 3 niches with shields and foliage in transept
west wall; and many ornamental gargoyles.

Gabled nave roof with steeply ridged coping, and ridge tiles in form of intersecting
round arches.

Octagonal bell turret with cusped openings, gargoyles and spirelet.

Interior has finely painted chancel roof.

The church was built at Prudhoe Hall but reconstucted at present site in 1904.

Listing NGR: NZ0946562717

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590764

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)