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St Cuthbert

St Cuthbert

Bellingham

Northumberland

C13, extensively remodelled 1609.

Architectural Features

2 further C17 offset buttresses flank the west end.

6-bay nave with possibly C17 lancets between C17 buttresses.

C17 north door with shallow pointed arch in 3rd bay.

Large south chapel has off-centre, 3-light C13 window with intersecting tracery, a single lancet on right return

a C17 square- headed window on left return.

C13 chancel has one original one-light south window and east end with 3 lancets with monolithic heads.

Interior has east and west responds of former C13 arcade in corners of nave and C13 double-chamfered chancel arch.

C17 chamfered round rere-arches to nave lancets.

Similar roof to south chapel which also has triple-shafted corbel respond of a C13 west arcade.

Arch into chapel from nave is round, double- chamfered with broach stops of 1609.

Monuments to Archibald Reed 1729 and TheresaandHarriet Charlton 1829 on chancel north wall inside.

Attached to chancel south wall outside, monument to Charlton of Redesmouth, 1628, with large irregular lettering carved in relief.