Church of St Michael With St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE, AVONDALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024948
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael With St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE, AVONDALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024948
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael With St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE, AVONDALE ROAD
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 MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE, AVONDALE 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 27290 64479
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AVONDALE ROAD (north side) NZ 26 SE Byker. 12/76 Church of St. Michael with St. Lawrence (formerly listed 14.6.54 in Headlam Street) II G.V. Parish church. 1862-3 by W.L. Moffat. 1936 addition of north aisle and vestry. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with tower over south porch; chancel with north organ chamber and north vestry. Decorated style. Porch in second bay has moulded pointed arch with recessed boarded door; stone porch seats; 2 upper stages of tower have cusped lancets and 3-light bell openings; stone broach spire with lucarnes. 2-light aisle and chancel windows, 3-light east window and 4-light west window have block-stopped dripmoulds. Buttresses, diagonal at corners. 3 steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: Plaster with boarded dado in south aisle and ashlar dressings; arch-braced collar-beam roof to nave, scissor-braced to aisles and arch-braced to chancel, all resting on shafted corbels. 5-bay arcades with circular piers on south and octagonal on north; high chancel arch; aisle and 3-bay chancel arcade to organ chamber. Flat Tudor arch to vestry door. Octagonal Gothic font with shields 1843 by R. Scott; Gothic font cover. Glass in north aisle commemorates H.T. Ormerod, curate, 1893-189?
Listing NGR: NZ2729064479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304375
- 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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