Jesmond Church of St Hilda
JESMOND CHURCH OF ST HILDA, THORNLEIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024758
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Jesmond Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address:
- JESMOND CHURCH OF ST HILDA, THORNLEIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024758
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Jesmond Church of St Hilda
- Statutory Address 1:
- JESMOND CHURCH OF ST HILDA, THORNLEIGH STREET
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:
- JESMOND CHURCH OF ST HILDA, THORNLEIGH STREET
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 25201 66479
Details
NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE THORNLEIGH STREET
(south side)
9/546 Jesmond. Church of
14.6. St. Hilda
GV II
Parish church, originally daughter church of St. George, Jesmond. 1900-5 by Hicks
and Charlewood. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Graduated Lakeland slate
roof. Aisled nave and chancel, north-west belfry; north vestry. Perpendicular style.
Moulded 2-centred arch to double boarded door in west bay of north aisle; low
octagonal belfry at right. Square-headed 5-light windows in nave aisles, 2-light in
chancel. 5-light east window has 2-centred head and flowing tracery. Set-back
buttresses; roll-moulded parapet and gable coping with cross finial; hipped roof
to vestry. Tall central copper-covered fleche has swept eaves and slender iron cross
finial. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; pointed barrel roof. 4-bay
nave has alternate round and octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches on moulded
capitals; 2 octagonal piers to Lady chapel. Blind west arch; shouldered arch to
vestry door. Octagonal font has blind tracery and square flower bosses. War memorial
triptych by F.H. Newbery A.R.C.A. showing figures of soldier, sailor, locomotive
engineer and miner, with Saints Nicholas and Hilda, in cil, in north aisle.
Listing NGR: NZ2520166479
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:
- 304894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34539
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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