Tyne and Wear HER(8332): Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban - Details
8332
Gateshead
Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban
Windy Nook
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
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
2721
6096
NZ27216096
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/57; Pictures in Print http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/pip