Church of St James With Hall, Sunday School and House Attached
CHURCH OF ST JAMES WITH HALL, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HOUSE ATTACHED, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024820
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James With Hall, Sunday School and House Attached
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES WITH HALL, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HOUSE ATTACHED, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024820
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James With Hall, Sunday School and House Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES WITH HALL, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HOUSE ATTACHED, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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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 JAMES WITH HALL, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HOUSE ATTACHED, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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 25124 64839
Details
NZ 2564 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD (north side) 17/425 Church of St.James with 30.3.87 hall, Sunday School and house attached.
G.V. II*
Congregational, now United Reformed, Church. 1882-4 by T. Lewis Banks. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; grey and green slate roofs. Cruciform church, with corner, and side aisles, aligned north-south; ritual west porches and vestibule; Sunday School,hall and house behind. Free C13 style. Gabled west front has 10 arched windows under tall 5-bay arcade, the outer bays blind; higher blind arcade in gable peak; angle buttresses with spirelets. Flanking gabled porches have double doors with elaborate hinges, triple nook shafts, shouldered surrounds and carved tympana. Lancet windows, paired in corner and triple in side aisles. Complex high roofs, with slate-hung central lantern and tall octagonal spire. Interior: walls rendered, with ashlar dressings, above boarded dado. 4 square piers with shafts to arches of side aisles and lower arches of corner aisles. Glass roof on pendentives to lantern; arch-braced collar trusses to side aisles. West gallery. High Gothic-style pulpit with wrought-iron grilles. Choir pews are memorial to dead of both world wars. Much C19 painted glass, including, 2 windows by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle in memory of Elizabeth and Florence Dunford of 1888 and 1919; and one by G. J. Baguley and Son in memory of William Crossley d.1918. Source: J.C.G. Binfield 'The Building of a Town Centre Church : St James ' Congregational Church, Newcastle upon Tyne' Northern History v.XVIII, Leeds 1983, pp.l53-181.
Listing NGR: NZ2512464839
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 304752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Northern History in Northern History, Vol. 18, (1983), 153-181
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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