Bensham, Bensham Road, Church of St. Cuthbert

HER Number:
8253

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Bensham Road, Church of St. Cuthbert

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1848 by John Dobson with wide north aisle added in 1875. Coursed stone with ashlar dressings, high pitched Welsh slate roof, in simple Romanesque style. Prominent eaves corbel table. 5-bay nave divided by flat buttresses. Single round headed windows in deep recesses. Short, low apsidal chancel has small cross-gabled aisles, the southern having chevron moulding to window and a small turret on the peak. South-west tower, of two stages, holds porch with chamfered and moulded doorway and two orders of nook-shafts. Stone broach spire with lucarnes. Small west vestry extension. Interior-round arcade piers, simple double-chamfered arches. West gallery on wood columns. Arch braced timber roof on stone corbels. Rib vaulted chancel, chevron moulded arch. Some good stained glass by Wailes, and by Thompson. In 2009 a photographic record was undertaken ahead of the redevelopment of the building for residential use.

Easting:
2477

Northing:
6235

Grid Reference:
NZ24776235

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/6, The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2009, St Cuthbert's Church, Bensham, Gateshead, Historic Buildings Recording