CHURCH OF ST JAMES AND ST BASIL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024896
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES AND ST BASIL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES AND ST BASIL, FENHAM HALL DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22552 65576
Details
NZ 26 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE FENHAM HALL DRIVE
(north side)
8/236 Church of St. James
and St. Basil.
14.6.54
G.V. II
Parish church. 1927-31 by E.E. Lofting; paid for by Sir James Knott in memory of
his sons James and Basil, killed in First World War. Snecked tooled sandstone
with ashlar dressings, moulded plinth and large quoins; graduated Lakeland slate
roof with roll-moulded gable copings. Nave and south aisle; south-east tower;
tall north vestry. Free Gothic style. Double doors, boarded and studded, in
2-centred arches, that at west moulded and shafted, that at south under corbelled
shallow gable. Tall traceried windows of 2 lights to twin-gabled west front and
to nave and aisle; smaller similar windows to tower south front; and 3-light windows
on east of tower and in chancel, this last very tall. Aisle and nave have corbel
table. Tower has 2 small windows above drip mould of east window; Lombard frieze
above these; and paired belfry openings with pierced shuttering under battlements.
Buttressed stair turret at south west has octagonal top with stone spirelet.
Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings; king-post roof; ribbed vault to tower
memorial chapel. 4-bay arcade of chamfered arches on tall octagonal columns;
similar archesto chapel. Arches with Moorish wood screens on north to organ
chamber; one similar arch and oriel screen,above tower chapel, for organ pipes.
Corbelled arcaded stone frieze below sills. Marble-flagged chancel floor.
Inlaid wood altar and retable; elaborately-carved reredos. High quality glass.
Historical, note: said to be built with stone from Dobson's 1830 Newcastle prison,
in Carliol Square, demolished at that time.
Listing NGR: NZ2255265576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304548
- 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.
End of official listing
