Church of St Aidan Bamburgh, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Aidan has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1042269
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
22 December 1969
Name
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN
Location
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, CHURCH STREET
Parish
Bamburgh
District
Northumberland
Grid Reference
NU 17849 34968
Easting
417848.6850
Northing
634968.2854

Listed Building Description

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BAMBURGH CHURCH STREET NU 1734 (North side) 17/32 Church of St. Aidan 22.12.69 GV I Parish church. C12, C13 and C14. Restored 1830 and later C19. Squared stone and ashlar; chancel and north transept have stone slate roofs; other roofs not visible. West tower, nave, aisles, transepts and chancel.

Tower C13 or early C14. 4 stages with offsets. Y-tracery window on ground floor, lancet bell openings; top storey C19 with battlements.

Aisles embrace tower. South aisle rebuilt early C14; renewed 2- and 3-light Decorated windows. C19 south door. Low-pitched roof behind parapet.

South transept also has renewed Decorated windows.

C13, 5-bay chancel with crypt. Paired lancets under continuous dripstone. Former priest's door in 2nd bay has surround of l83O with high gable. Rainwater. heads dated 1830 with arms of Lord Crewe. East end has 3 lancets of even height separated by buttresses. Corbel table, parapet and steeply-pitched roof.

North transept in small squared C12 stone has narrow east lancet (cf interior), renewed Decorated windows elsewhere. Steeply-pitched roof.

North aisle in larger Medieval ashlar has 4 renewed Decorated windows.

Interior: Indications of earlier Romanesque church include round rere-arch of north transept east window, masonry of south transept north wall, and uneven build of east end of nave. 3 triple-chamfered tower arches. 4-bay nave has late C12 - early C13 north arcade with round piers, simply-moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches; 3rd pier has stiff-leaf capital, east arch is very narrow. South arcade similar but slightly later. Transept arches have 2 slight chamfers towards nave and north aisle, unmoulded towards transept; very wide C14 double-chamfered arch into south aisle.

C16 clerestory windows, now beneath roof; also C16 square newel stair in tower. Tower ceiling includes old forked beam associated with legend of death of St. Aidan. North aisle has old arched tiebeams.

Chancel: Double-chamfered chancel arch with large Decorated squint to right. Arcaded side walls with pairs of arches rising over each pair of lancets and narrow arch between; they rise from corbels which were formerly the capitals of shafts which have been removed. C14 sedilia, piscina and aumbry. C14 tomb recess with effigy of Knight. 2 low-side windows, the south one blocked. Elaborate C19 open timber roof. C17 altar rails. Wall monuments to:- Claudius Forster, 1623, a cartouche in aedicule; Forster family, 1711, large and well- carved. Large stone reredos with statues of saints, 1895 by W.S. Hicks.

North aisle: recumbent effigy of Grace Darling, 1844 by Raymond Smith, formerly in the churchyard; Sharpe memorial of 1839 by Chantrey. Hatchments in nave.

Vaulted 2-bay crypt with cinquepartite rib vaults rising from corbels.

Listing NGR: NU1784334964