Description

SEATON VALLEY (part) FRONT STREET (north side)
NZ 37 SW
Earsdon.
4/26
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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479636

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)