St Francis of Assisi, Byrness
St Francis of Assisi, Byrness
St Francis of Assisi is a Grade II parish church in Byrness, Rochester civil parish, Northumberland, a small estate church on the edge of Kielder Forest in the Diocese of Newcastle.
- Location
- Byrness, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Byrness
- Address
- Byrness, Northumberland, NE19 1TR
- Postcode
- NE19 1TR
- Built
- 1796; restored, gothicized and chancel partly rebuilt 1884
- Architect
- F. R. Wilson (1884 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Francis
- Diocese
- Newcastle
- Parish
- Horsley with Byrness
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Late Georgian, gothicized
- Materials
- Ashlar with stone slate roof
- Grid reference
- NT 770 023
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England dates the church to 1796, restored, gothicized and with the chancel partly rebuilt in 1884 by F. R. Wilson. The fabric is ashlar with a stone slate roof: a two-bay nave, chancel, west baptistry or vestry, north porch and west bellcote. Eighteenth-century round-headed nave windows have nineteenth-century Decorated tracery; the inner doorway is dated 1796. The interior is otherwise of 1884, with a double-chamfered chancel arch, canted timber ceiling and encaustic sanctuary tiles.
A south window of 1903 commemorates men, women and children who died during construction of Catcleugh Reservoir; an adjacent brass lists 64 people who died between 1891 and 1904. The parish is Horsley with Byrness. The listing (1044835, 10 November 1951) was formerly headed Byrness Church.