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Latitude: 55.0461 / 55°2'46"N
Longitude: -1.5004 / 1°30'1"W
OS Eastings: 432020
OS Northings: 572518
OS Grid: NZ320725
Mapcode National: GBR KBY2.ZX
Mapcode Global: WHC3D.XFPD
Plus Code: 9C7W2FWX+FR
Entry Name: Church of St Alban
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1184308
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303270
ID on this website: 101184308
Location: St Alban's Church, Earsdon, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE25
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Whitley Bay
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Earsdon and Backworth
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Church building
SEATON VALLEY (part) FRONT STREET (north side)
NZ 37 SW
Earsdon.
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Church of St. Alban
G.V.
II
Parish church. 1836-7 by John and Benjamin Green; 1889 chancel. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings. plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone
gable copings. West tower; nave; chancel with north vestry and south porch. Early
English style. Gothic-panelled double south door in tower under stepped lancet
belfry openings offsets to set-back buttresses with spirelets on upper stages;
central canopied pierced lancets to parapet. Buttressed, 6-bay nave and 2-bay
chancel have lancets; 2-light sanctuary and 4-light east windows. Boarded porch
door in 2-centred arch. Interior: plaster; gothic-traceried struts to bracketed
queen-post roof, upper level ceiled. Banded quatrefoil columns support west
gallery; 2-centred arch to north organ chamber. Glass: in east nave lancets:
C16, possibly by Galyon Hone for Hampton Court: presented in 1874 by Lord Hastings;
restored by L. C. Evetts in 1958: armorials of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Sources:
L.C. Evetts "Sixteenth Century Heraldic Glass at Earsdon, Northumberland"
Archaeologia Aeliana 4; XXXVII; 333-39
Listing NGR: NZ3202072518
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