Tyne and Wear HER(7250): Earsdon, Front Street, Church of St. Alban - Details
7250
N Tyneside
Earsdon, Front Street, Church of St. Alban
Earsdon
NZ37SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Parish church. 1836-7 by John and Benjamin Green; 1889 chancel. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. West tower, nave, chancel with north vestry and south porch. Early English style. Gothic-panelled double south door in tower. Boarded porch door in arch. Interior - queen-post roof, columns support west gallery, arch to north organ chamber. Sixteenth century glass in east nave lancets, possibly by Galyon Hone for Hampton Court, presented in 1874 by Lord Hastings, restored by L.C. Evetts in 1958, armorials of Henry VII and Henry VIII. LISTED GRADE 2
3202
7251
NZ32027251
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/26; L.C. Evetts, "Sixteenth Century Heraldic Glass at Earsdon, Northumberland", Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4, Vol XXXVII, pages 333-339; The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2012, The Edward Eccles Hall, Earsdon Renewable Energy Project - Archaeological Watching Brief