Description

CORNHILL-ON-TWEED CORNHILL-ON-TWEED
NT 83 NE
9/35 Church of St. Helen
GV II

Parish church. 1840 by Ignatius Bonomi, incorporating masonry from church of
1751. Altered and chancel added 1866. Nave random rubble, chancel snecked
stone; Welsh slate roof.

Nave, chancel and north porch.

4-bay nave has paired lancets with trefoiled windows above. West bay has 2
tiers of paired cusped windows. West end has projection with offsets rising
to gabled bellcote. In the projection a window with shouldered lintel. Left
and right are groups of 3 lancets, the central lancet blank. One-bay chancel
has 3-light Geometric east window. Gabled porch on north side has door with
shouldered lintel.

Interior: West gallery of 1840 on 2 Tuscan columns; modillion cornice and
pulvinated frieze; the parapet bears a mid C18 carving of Collingwood arms
in a frame of open-work Rococo mantling;moulded and ramped top rail. 2 large
Collingwood hatchments of the early C19. Pulpit and reading desk, probably
of 1840, have arched panels, waterleaf columns at angles, and brass
candleholders.

Listing NGR: NT8584339239

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294073

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)