Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban
Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban
HER Number
8332
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban
Place
Windy Nook
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Parish church. 1841-2 by Thomas Liddell with additions 1888. Coursed squared
sandstone, with ashlar dressings; plinth; roof of Welsh slate has flat stone
gable coping. Nave with south porch; north aisle, 1888 north porch to
chancel. South front: trefoil window in gable of porch, shouldered
door in return in chamfered jambs; 2 pairs of lancet windows flanked by
buttresses; lower chancel set back has 2 lancets. Strings at sills and at
head of coped buttresses; clasping buttresses to nave and angle to chancel.
East front has 3 cusped lancets,quatrefoil over; sill string. North side
has 5 lancets; central buttress. West front has 3 lancets with sill string,
slit window in gable peak; bellcote corbelled out above. Cross finials. LISTED GRADE 2
sandstone, with ashlar dressings; plinth; roof of Welsh slate has flat stone
gable coping. Nave with south porch; north aisle, 1888 north porch to
chancel. South front: trefoil window in gable of porch, shouldered
door in return in chamfered jambs; 2 pairs of lancet windows flanked by
buttresses; lower chancel set back has 2 lancets. Strings at sills and at
head of coped buttresses; clasping buttresses to nave and angle to chancel.
East front has 3 cusped lancets,quatrefoil over; sill string. North side
has 5 lancets; central buttress. West front has 3 lancets with sill string,
slit window in gable peak; bellcote corbelled out above. Cross finials. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
427210
Northing
560960
Grid Reference
NZ427210560960
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/57; Pictures in Print http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/pip