Title

Ponteland Church, Northumberland, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Ponteland Church, Northumberland, 1854. Church of St Mary the Virgin, '...built, probably, in the early part of the thirteenth century, although its tower betokens an earlier date, in its Norman doorway entering from the west. The body of the Church is in a mixed style of architecture - Gothic, Transitional, Florid, Venetian, and bad Modern...Few persons can fail to have remarked the dank and cavernous appearance of the walls of churches in rural districts; indicating dampness and other unhealthy conditions of such edifices...The interior has hitherto been, like too many of our country churches, damp, cold, unaired, with walls discoloured by the grass outside; and the woodwork decayed, and sending off offensive odours....the earth was removed from the walls outside, and a most effectual drainage carried out...Stoves and flues have been introduced...[for heating]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22B08_068

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NA

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License type

Rights managed

Available size

10,3Mb (837,1Kb) / 6,7in x 6,0in / 2008 x 1800 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors countryside building England historical religious architecture religion British church Northumberland Christianity rustic Gothic location century Britain newspapers press damp concept drainage drain drains B&W sanitation 19th century black & white black and white B W Norman nineteenth century Thirteenth Century 13th century rural history historic The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life TGN ILN outside newspaper engraving Church of St Mary the Virgin Unknown damp proofing Ponteland Regionalism sewage system 19th-century