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IoE Number:
410369
Location:
CHAPEL OF ST CUTHBERT,
NORTH SUNDERLAND, BERWICK UPON TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
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Date listed:
22 December 1969
Date of last amendment:
22 December 1969
Grade
II*
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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.