La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers
LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024954
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers
- Statutory Address:
- LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-05-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/03803/10
- Rights:
- © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024954
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE
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:
- LA SAGESSE SCHOOL, JESMOND TOWERS, BEMERSYDE DRIVE
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 25491 67122
Details
NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BEMERSYDE DRIVE (north side, off)
9/91 La Sagesse School, Jesmond Towers, (Formerly listed in 17.12.71 Jesmond Dene Road.)
G.V. II*
Large house, now school. Early C19, additions 1817 and 1823-7 by Dobson for Sir Thomas Burdon; enlarged 1869 by T. Oliver and 1884 by T.R. Spence for Charles Mitchell. Sandstone ashlar, with Welsh slate roofs to canted bays and graduated Lakeland slate roofs elsewhere. Irregular plan. Gothic style. 2 and 3 storeys, 9 irregular bays. Partly-glazed door recessed in Gothic porch with panelled ceiling; 4-light flanking windows with Y-tracery. 2 cusped lights to square-headed windows above, with tall panelled buttresses flanking entrance bay and ending in pinnacles. Pierced balustrade either side and central stepped parapet with coat of arms. A variety of canted, oriel and square bay windows with stone mullions, some also transomed, and some traceried; drip moulds, buttresses, parapets, some gabled with sloping battlements, some pierced. Gallery at left has high central parapet and corner turrets with large acanthus bud finials. 3-storey tower to rear has battlemented parapet. Interior shows stone-arched entrance hall with tiled floor; Gothic ashlar chimney piece and similar-style cast iron grate; vine and oak carving to corniced surrounds of billiard-room doors which have painted glass panels; high quality painted glass in other windows in billiard room, gallery and small sitting room at right end. The latter has finely-moulded stucco cornice and frieze with foliage patterns; painted dado in arts-and-crafts style. Stair in right part of house has delicate Gothic balustrade, with pendants to landing triple arch; and stucco Gothic-panelled soffits above doors. Gallery at left, built to display paintings, has top lights and end windows; ornate stucco frieze and cornice, panelled coved ceiling. Source: W.F. Dendy "An Account of Jesmond" Archaeologia Aeliana 3 I 173-4; Newcastle Daily Journal 16 January 1865; Tyne and Wear Archives Department T186/365, T186/10335.
Listing NGR: NZ2532967174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newcastle Daily Journal in 16 January, (1865)
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana - Third Series, Vol. 1, (), 173-4
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 06:25:30.
Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
End of official list entry