Description

BLYTH PLESSEY ROAD
NZ 3181 SE
(South side)
12/41 Church of
St. Cuthbert
28.7.50
GV II*
Parish church, 1884-93 by W.S. Hicks. Snecked tooled stone with ashlar dressings;
except for porch, oak on stone base. Lakeland slate roof. Cruciform plan with
western porch to narthex; vestries, broad unaisled nave, central tower and small
sanctuary. Free C14 style. Porch in form of lych gate in timber-framed C15
style, into flat-roofed narthex with diagonal buttresses and moulded parapet.
Slightly narrower 4-bay nave with crocketed pinnacles flanking 4-light west
window above narthex roof. Side walls with stepped buttresses and 2- or 3-light
windows. Transepts each have angle buttresses, doors on west and two 2-light
windows in each end. Tower with big diagonal buttresses at western angles and
octagonal south-east stair turret; 2-light bell openings and string with
gargoyles below stepped embattled parapet. Sanctuary with setback buttresses,
5-light east window and 2-light window on each side wall. Gables with moulded
coping; finial crosses on east and west ends. Patterned rainwater heads dated
1884.

Interior: Plastered, except for crossing and sanctuary with alternating
dressings of pink and buff stone. Crossing has semi-octagonal piers and
capitals differing in detail; smaller arches set obliquely between nave and
transepts. Nave has panelled barrel roof on carved embattled wall-plate with
cusped panels, and coved eaves; wainscoting also panelled and embattled. West
door and window in tall double-chamfered arch. Tower has wood lierne vault
with carved bosses. Sanctuary has panelled barrel roof with bosses and richly-
carved embattled wall-plate; piscina, sedilia, panelled walls. Carved stone
font with conical cover. Good late C19 glass in nave, some by Percy Bacon Bros.
of London. In narthex is entrance lobby with coffered ceiling.

Listing NGR: NZ3178281469

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545768

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)