Killingworth, West Lane, Church of St. John the Evangelist

HER Number:
7260

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Killingworth, West Lane, Church of St. John the Evangelist

Place:
Killingworth

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

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. 1869 by E. Bassett Keeling. Sandstone, coursed and squared, with bands of red sandstone; rendered north nave wall. Welsh slate roof with stone copings. Nave and chancel with continuous shorter south aisle. Three-sided apse. West door in aisle in arch. Arched lancet windows in clerestory. Crescents (emblem of Dukes of Northumberland) carved in coping of buttresses. Interior - brick with ashlar dressings. Scissor-braced roof. Still-leaf arcade capitals. Priest's door under high pointed hood-mould. Stencilled decoration to chancel roof. Chancel floor of tiles and Frosterley marble contains brass memorial to first vicar, J.S. Blair, died 1890. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2792

Northing:
7099

Grid Reference:
NZ27927099

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/13; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 79