---
title: "St Edmund, Edmundbyers"
description: "Located in Edmundbyers, County Durham. Built 12th century and later; restored c.1859. Diocese of Durham. Grade II. Norman parish church, heavily restored style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","County Durham","Edmundbyers","Grade II","Norman"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-edmund-edmundbyers"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:39:07.465Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:32:44.082Z"
location: "Edmundbyers, County Durham"
country: "England"
county: "County Durham"
town: "Edmundbyers"
address: "Church Lane, Edmundbyers, County Durham, DH8 9NQ"
postcode: "DH8 9NQ"
built: "12th century and later; restored c.1859"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Edmund"]
diocese: "Durham"
grade: "II"
style: "Norman parish church, heavily restored"
materials: "Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings"
openingHours: "Open 9am to 5pm (approximately) Monday to Saturday."
parish: "Edmundbyers"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229331"
gridReference: "NZ 014 499"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas"
---

# St Edmund, Edmundbyers

St Edmund’s is a Grade II parish church off the B6278 on the western edge of Edmundbyers, County Durham, in the Diocese of Durham.

## Overview

Historic England lists a parish church of the twelfth century and later, restored about 1859, in sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a stone-flagged roof. The plan is a four-bay nave with south porch and a three-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. The porch has a chamfered round-headed doorway; nave windows are nineteenth-century and round-headed, with drip moulds. The slightly lower chancel retains narrow chamfered medieval round-headed lights as well as nineteenth-century windows; a west gabled bellcote crowns the nave. The listing notes a restored chancel arch flanked by inserted lower round-headed arches used as lectern and pulpit, a west vestry of twentieth-century construction using reused seventeenth-century and later elements (including a door from Shepherds Dene, Riding Mill, and a priest’s pew from Auckland Castle), and a memorial to William Featherstonhaugh, rector 1856–1904. Local accounts place the church around 1100–1150, possibly on an earlier site, and record a stone altar hidden in 1571 and later reinstated.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1229331](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229331)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Edmund](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101229331-church-of-st-edmund-edmondbyers)