Church of St Philip
CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, ST PHILIP'S CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024773
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, ST PHILIP'S CLOSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03305/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024773
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, ST PHILIP'S CLOSE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP, ST PHILIP'S CLOSE
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 23575 64500
Details
NZ 26 SW and NZ 2364 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ST. PHILIP'S CLOSE (east side) 11/491 and 18/491 Church of St. Philip (formerly listed in 14.6.54 Longley Street. GV II Parish church 1871 by Redmayne. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; rubble sandstone north walls; chamfered plinth. Welsh slate roof. Nave with north porch; paired south transepts; narrower chancel and south vestry. Double door, with ornamental wrought iron hinges, in double-chamfered surround in gabled porch. Lancet windows on north, triple lancets on west, with sill string; plate tracery to 2-light south windows, geometric tracery to tall 3-light east window. Gabled belfry at north side of west gable. South chancel hall has very tall chimney stack with offsets. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced scissor-truss roof. Blind north arcade of 4 bays; 2-bay south arcade to transepts; double-chamfered arches on round columns or half-columns; tall chamfered chancel arch with inner arch on fluted bracket. Hood moulds to arcades and to entrances. W.W.I. memorial chancel panelling, in Tudor style, bears names of dead of parish (252 in all). Piscina with billet moulding above. Square font on pink marble shafts. Thick hinges to boarded door in north porch. High-quality glass in upper lights of each window and one south chancel memorial window.
Listing NGR: NZ2357564500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304831
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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