Great Bavington URC
Great Bavington URC
Great Bavington United Reformed Church, listed as the Presbyterian Church, is a Grade II former Presbyterian meeting house of random rubble and Welsh slate, among the oldest still used for worship in England.
- Location
- Great Bavington, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Great Bavington
- Address
- Great Bavington, Northumberland, NE19 2BN
- Postcode
- NE19 2BN
- Built
- 1693; porch dated 1725; altered and Gothicized 1869; meeting room and kitchen 1975
- Denomination
- United Reformed Church
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Presbyterian meeting house, Gothicized 1869
- Materials
- Random rubble with Welsh slate roof
- Grid reference
- NY 984 802
- Opening hours
- Covid19 : Open for services on the 1st Sunday of every month (November to March), and the 1st and 3rd Sundays (April to October). [Open most days from late March to late October (British Summer Time).]
- Access
- Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a Presbyterian church dated above the south door DB EB 1725, with a porch added, the church altered and Gothicized in 1869 (date below the lintel), and a meeting room and kitchen of 1975 (not of special interest). The vessel is four bays with two-light round-headed Victorian windows on the south; bays one and four were originally doors. An eighteenth-century sundial sits between the second and third bays. The National Churches Trust and Co-Curate date the congregation’s building to 1693, after the Act of Toleration, following the ejection of Robert Blunt, vicar of Kirkharle, in 1662; they describe it as the oldest former Presbyterian church still used for worship in Northumberland and the second oldest in England after Tunley, Lancashire. A west window of 1962 by Hartley Woods of Sunderland marks the tercentenary of the Great Ejectment. Listed Grade II on 5 September 1985 (NHLE 1155038).