Description

NORTH SUNDERLAND INNER FARNE
NU 23 NW
Farne Islands
5/172 Chapel of St.
Cuthbert
22.12.69
GV II*
Chapel. C12 or C13 masonry-in lower part of north wall. Rebuilt C14,
extensively restored 1840-50. Older masonry squared stone; elsewhere random
whinstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Single-cell building of 4 bays.
Renewed ogee doorway in left bay and two C19 Decorated windows in centre bays.
Left bay has blocked original 2-light Decorated window. 3-light C19 east
window. North wall blank.
Gabled roof with small west bellcote.
Interior: Richly decorated with C17 woodwork made for Bishop Cosin at Durham
Cathedral and brought here by Archdeacon Thorp in the 1840's. Includes:
tabernacled stalls with combined Gothic tracery and renaissance heads, festoons
etc; pews with similarly-carved back panels and bench ends; screen with C17-
style balusters, Gothic tracery and cresting of repeated mitres. 2 older
chairs with misericords,one a green man, the other a cherub. Monument to
Grace Darling, erected by Archdeacon Thorp, with commemorative verse by
Wordsworth.

Listing NGR: NU2180835990

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546799

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]