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The dedication to The Holy Paraclete is unique in England.

Consecrated in 1864 and featuring an artefact from the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh and a reredos by the Venetian Salviati.

Our small stone church has an interesting history, a peaceful churchyard and attractive views.

Blanchland got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey.

The church sits quietly on a hill top amongst the trees near to the ruins of the ancient listed Grade I Monastic Grange and it is on the route of the Northern Saints Trails and the Roof of England long distance trail.

A casualty of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the only remaining part of the 12th century Premonstratensian Blanchland Abbey is part of the abbey church which today serves the parish of Blanchland.

Sarah Losh (1785-1853), a local landowner, designed St Mary's in 1840, partly in memory of her sister and parents.

St Andrew's, built in 1155AD, nestles in the dale with an ambience that gives a peaceful feeling to all who enter.

St Ives is an early work (1868) by prolific architect Charles Hodgson Fowler, and its style is the plain 19th century reinterpretation of medieval Early English.

This stunning ancient parish church is a place of revelation, hope and encounter where you will find 1000 years of Christianity and 4000 years of human history.