St Wilfrid, Kirkharle
St Wilfrid, Kirkharle
St Wilfrid’s (listed as Church of St Wilfred) is a Grade I parish church at Kirkharle Courtyard, Northumberland, in the Diocese of Newcastle.
- Location
- Kirkharle, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Kirkharle
- Address
- Kirkharle Courtyard, Kirkharle, Northumberland, NE19 2PE
- Postcode
- NE19 2PE
- Built
- C14; C18 porch and vestry; restored 1884
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Wilfrid
- Diocese
- Newcastle
- Parish
- Kirkwhelpington
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated
- Materials
- Dressed stone; west porch and vestry ashlar; Welsh slate roof
- Grid reference
- NZ 011 826
- Opening hours
- The church is open during daylight hours. The door handle is stiff and should be turned anticlockwise.
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century church with eighteenth-century work, restored in 1884. The fabric is dressed stone, with an ashlar west porch and vestry, under a Welsh slate roof. The plan is a two-bay nave, two-bay chancel, west porch and north vestry. Nave windows have Victorian Decorated tracery in fourteenth-century arched openings with original labels. The chancel has a priest’s door with two continuous hollow chamfers, a cusped ogee ‘low-side’ window, genuine fourteenth-century reticulated north windows, and a rebuilt east end with a five-light reticulated window. An early-eighteenth-century west bellcote has pilasters and a moulded round-arched cornice. Interior fittings include a chancel arch of two continuous chamfers, fourteenth-century sedilia and piscina, Victorian hammer-beam roofs, and a Perpendicular octagonal font from the old Church of All Saints, Newcastle. Local accounts associate a chantry founded by Sir William de Herle around 1336 with the present Decorated fabric.