CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE

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
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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL WITH ST LAWRENCE, AVONDALE ROAD

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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

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Legacy System number:: 304375
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.