St Mark, Ninebanks
St Mark, Ninebanks
St Mark's is a Grade II Church of England parish church at Ninebanks, West Allen, Northumberland, in the Diocese of Newcastle and the parish of Whitfield and Ninebanks.
- Location
- Ninebanks, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Ninebanks
- Address
- Ninebanks, Northumberland, NE47 9PA
- Postcode
- NE47 9PA
- Built
- 1871; predecessor consecrated 1764
- Architect
- Haswell
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mark
- Diocese
- Newcastle
- Parish
- Whitfield and Ninebanks
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Rubble with dressings; blue slate roof with purple bands and orange ridge tiles
- Grid reference
- NY 782 524
- Opening hours
- Open all year.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records a parish church of 1871 by Haswell: rubble with dressings and a blue slate roof with two purple bands and orange ridge tiles. The plan is rectangular, with a canted apse, a south porch linked to a south-west tower, and a small north vestry. The three-stage tower has paired belfry openings and a square stone spire with two bands of tegulated ornament. The interior has no structural division; arch-braced roof trusses rest on moulded corbels, and the font is in a thirteenth-century style.
A first St Mark's on the site was consecrated in 1764 and rebuilt in 1871. Windows were given by R Lee in 1880. The church stands in the North Pennines, in a valley long associated with lead mining.