St Cuthbert, Corsenside
St Cuthbert, Corsenside
St Cuthbert’s is a Grade II parish church off the A68 at Corsenside, Redesdale, Northumberland, in the Diocese of Newcastle. It stands on St Cuthbert’s Way in Northumberland National Park.
- Location
- Corsenside, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Corsenside
- Address
- Corsenside, Northumberland, NE48 2TA
- Postcode
- NE48 2TA
- Built
- 12th century; south door and bellcote 1735; nave windows mid-19th century
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Cuthbert
- Diocese
- Newcastle
- Parish
- Corsenside
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Norman, with 18th- and 19th-century alterations
- Materials
- Dressed stone with slate roof and asbestos tiles to the chancel
- Grid reference
- NY 890 892
- Opening hours
- Open all day.
- Access
- Reached off the A68 down a farm track; isolated except for an adjacent late-17th-century house. Open all year for private prayer.
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of the twelfth century, with a bellcote and south door of 1735, mid-nineteenth-century nave windows, a seventeenth-century priest’s door and a nineteenth-century south porch. The fabric is dressed stone with a slate roof and asbestos tiles to the chancel: a six-bay nave (windows on the south only), two-bay chancel, south porch and a lean-to on the north. The south door has an elliptical head with a date on a triple keystone. The chancel has a Tudor-arched priest’s door, an eighteenth-century twelve-pane sash and a nineteenth-century east window with intersecting tracery. A gabled west bellcote has a ball finial. Inside, an unmoulded twelfth-century chancel arch sits on plain chamfered imposts. There is an eighteenth-century octagonal font, four medieval grave slabs on the nave wall, an eighteenth-century altar rail, and Reed family monuments of the eighteenth century on the south wall. The interior was thoroughly restored in the late twentieth century. Listing NGR: NY8902089266.
The Church Heritage Record describes a small isolated church sixteen miles north of Hexham. Peter Ryder has suggested evidence that the nave was once vaulted as a defensible retreat.