East Rainton, Quarry Hill Lane, Church of St. Cuthbert

HER Number:
6059

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Quarry Hill Lane, Church of St. Cuthbert

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Parish Church, 1866-7 by C.H. Fowler. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Shallow gabled porch with pointed-arched double boarded door. West bellcote. Interior - south chancel window by Wailes and Strang of Newcastle shows Holman Hunt's "Light of the World". LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3355

Northing:
4777

Grid Reference:
NZ33554777

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 7/15; East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas