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Latitude: 55.3143 / 55°18'51"N
Longitude: -1.9564 / 1°57'23"W
OS Eastings: 402863
OS Northings: 602247
OS Grid: NU028022
Mapcode National: GBR G6SZ.7S
Mapcode Global: WHB0P.XPJB
Entry Name: Thropton United Reformed Church with Front Wall and Gatepiers to Manse
Listing Date: 21 October 1953
Last Amended: 25 August 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1281695
English Heritage Legacy ID: 236663
Location: Thropton, Northumberland, NE65
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Thropton
Built-Up Area: Thropton
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Upper Coquetdale
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
THROPTON THROPTON VILLAGE
NU 00 SW
(South side)
16/317 Thropton United
Reformed Church
(formerly listed
21.10.53
as Presbyterian
Church) with front
wall and gatepiers
to Manse
GV II
Presbyterian Church. 1863 by F.R. Wilson of Alnwick. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular 4-bay plan with 3-sided
eastern apse, north-west porch carrying bell turret and south-east vestry.
Free C13 style. Stepped buttresses, moulded sill string. West end has
4-light window and coped gable on moulded kneelers; other windows are all
trefoil-headed lancets. Porch has boarded double doors with foliate hinges;
upper part steps back to octagonal turret carrying square belfry with trefoil-
headed openings, under steep gablets with sunk ornament,and spirelet with carved
finial.
Interior: Plastered. All windows with shouldered rear arches. Arch-braced
collar-beam roof with moulded pendants and king struts; similar half-trusses
over apse. Truss fronting apse has wallposts and cusped braces. Panelled
pulpit set centrally against east wall; numbered benches.
Low front wall with chamfered coping (rails removed) runs east from porch to
stop-chamferedgatepiers with pyramidal caps, holding C20 wrought-iron gate.
Listing NGR: NU0286302247
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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