Quarry Hill Lane, Church of St. Cuthbert

HER Number

6059

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Quarry Hill Lane, Church of St. Cuthbert

Place

East Rainton

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Parish Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Parish Church, 1866-7 by C.H. Fowler. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Shallow gabled porch with pointed-arched double boarded door. West bellcote. Interior - south chancel window by Wailes and Strang of Newcastle shows Holman Hunt's "Light of the World". LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

433550

Northing

547770

Grid Reference

NZ433550547770

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 7/15; East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas