Chapel of St Cuthbert North Sunderland, England
Listed Building Data
Chapel of St Cuthbert has been designated a Grade II* 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1276105
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 22 December 1969
- Name
- CHAPEL OF ST CUTHBERT
- Location
- CHAPEL OF ST CUTHBERT
- Parish
- North Sunderland
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NU 21808 35990
- Easting
- 421808.0000
- Northing
- 635990.0000
Listed Building Description
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NORTH SUNDERLAND INNER FARNE NU 23 NW Farne Islands 5/172 Chapel of St. Cuthbert 22.12.69 GV II* Chapel. C12 or C13 masonry-in lower part of north wall. Rebuilt C14, extensively restored 1840-50. Older masonry squared stone; elsewhere random whinstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Single-cell building of 4 bays. Renewed ogee doorway in left bay and two C19 Decorated windows in centre bays. Left bay has blocked original 2-light Decorated window. 3-light C19 east window. North wall blank. Gabled roof with small west bellcote. Interior: Richly decorated with C17 woodwork made for Bishop Cosin at Durham Cathedral and brought here by Archdeacon Thorp in the 1840's. Includes: tabernacled stalls with combined Gothic tracery and renaissance heads, festoons etc; pews with similarly-carved back panels and bench ends; screen with C17- style balusters, Gothic tracery and cresting of repeated mitres. 2 older chairs with misericords,one a green man, the other a cherub. Monument to Grace Darling, erected by Archdeacon Thorp, with commemorative verse by Wordsworth.
Listing NGR: NU2180835990
