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Our Lady

Our Lady

Seaton Sluice

Northumberland

Early C12, probably incorporating earlier fabric

Architectural Features

east end rebuilt c.1330, restoration and addition of west porch 1895.

blocked round-headed C12 or earlier loop on north, and slatted opening under small pointed arch in west gable.

Gabled porch with panelled double doors under re-set head of C14 east window with reticulated tracery

Small blocked doors close to west end of north and south walls, the latter square- headed with a roll-moulded surround of C16 type.

Near-identical chancel and sanctuary arches with soffit rolls between hollows, zig-zag and hoods with billet moulding and chip-carved ornament, on semicircular responds with cushion caps beneath chamfered impost string, continued along the chancel and sanctuary walls below a plain barrel vault.

C14 piscina with trefoiled ogee arch and shelf on south of sanctuary

In sanctuary C14 effigies of cross-legged knight, probably Sir Hugh Delaval, and late C14 or early C15 lady, on moulded plinths.

6 large C18 or early C19 hatchments of Delavals and Astleys in nave.