St Mark's Church House
ST MARK'S CHURCH HOUSE, SHIELDS ROAD, NE6 2UQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024723
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- St Mark's Church House
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARK'S CHURCH HOUSE, SHIELDS ROAD, NE6 2UQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024723
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- St Mark's Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARK'S CHURCH HOUSE, SHIELDS ROAD, NE6 2UQ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARK'S CHURCH HOUSE, SHIELDS ROAD, NE6 2UQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27274 64982
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/10/2016
NZ 26 SE,
1833-/12/10005
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
SHIELDS ROAD,
St Mark's Church House
(Formerly listed as: CHURCH OF ST MARK)
II
Former Parish Church. Designed 1904 by Hicks and Charlewood of Newcastle, built
1905-6 at the expense of W.D.Cruddas of Haughton Castle and consecrated
10th March 1906. Altered 1967. Nave and chancel divided by a bellcote. Nave
aisles with vestries and organ chamber. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs.
Ashlar coped gables with kneelers and angle buttresses. Perpendicular
Revival style. East front has large 7-light pointed arch window with panel
tracery and hood mould. Angles topped by crocketed pinnacles and gable
topped by finial. To the left a lean-to with a 3-light pointed arch window
with panel tracery, to the right a 3-light flat-headed mullion window.
South front has 2 window chancel and 6 window nave with aisles and
clerestory. North front has 2 window chancel with single storey hipped roof
vestry, and 2 storey gabled organ chamber. Vestry has a 2-light mullion
window and a pointed arch doorway with hood mould, beyond the organ chamber
has a 3-light mullion window and above a tall 3-light pointed arch window
with hood mould. The nave has 5, 3-light pointed arch windows and to the
west a single pointed arch doorway with double doors and a wooden tracery
overlight. Above the clerestory has 5, 3-light flat-headed mullion windows
and a single 2-light window to the west. West front has a four light
pointed arch window with a central major mullion. On the roof between the
nave and chancel a gabled bellcote with 2 round headed bell openings.
Interior: 6 bay nave arcades with double chamfered pointed arches with
octagonal piers and responds. Elaborate wooden single hammer beam roof. The
west section of the nave has been partitioned off in 1967 to a hall,
meeting rooms, kitchens etc. Double chamfered pointed arch. Fittings
include temporary organ by Bishop & sons with wooden case. Wooden pews,
choir stalls and screens. Octagonal stone font decorated with panel
tracery, 1906 with a wooden font cover added 1933. Brass lectern 1906. East
window dedicated 8th June 1921 as a war memorial by John Charles Bevsey.
Listing NGR: NZ2727464982
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34321
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34324
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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