Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban

HER Number:
8332

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Windy Nook, Windy Nook Road, Church of St. Alban

Place:
Windy Nook

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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. 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

Easting:
2721

Northing:
6096

Grid Reference:
NZ27216096

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/57; Pictures in Print http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/pip