Church of St Aloysius
CHURCH OF ST ALOYSIUS, BELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025193
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aloysius
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ALOYSIUS, BELL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025193
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Aloysius
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ALOYSIUS, BELL STREET
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 ALOYSIUS, BELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30694 64792
Details
NZ 36SW
2/72
HEBBURN
BELL STREET (north side)
Church of St Aloysius
GV
II
RC parish church. 1888 by C Walker of Newcastle. Polychrome brick with terracotta
and sandstone dressings; roof of Welsh slate. 4-bay nave, with north and south
aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel. Double transepts, apsidal chapel to
north transept. North and south elevations : 3 over 3 lancet windows to each
transept gable, with 3 slit openings in the peaks : 3 lancets to each aisle
bay, 2 to each bay in the clerestory; angle buttresses with 1 set-back and gablets
at east and west ends, buttresses with 3 set-backs to transepts and aisles.
West elevation : round window, sandstone, with plate tracery in round-headed
brick recess having gauged brick arch; small lancets in peak flank corbelled
pilaster bearing cross finial. Hood moulds, beast and flower stops, strings,
gable and buttress copings of terracotta. Interior : boarded roof with scissor-
braced trusses, alternate ones having strutted arch braces and resting on corbels
of stone and brick, continuous over nave and chancel; Lady Chapel apsidal with
arch-braced wood roof; north transept contains gallery with organ case, but
only corbels show position of south gallery either removed or not built; central
arcaded beam supports transept roofs; corbels of angels and mythical beasts;
glass, mostly original, by Reed Millican of Newcastle. Furnishings: altar and
reredos by John Gallagher of Newcastle, are Gothic, as are the side screens
and communion rail and pulpit of similar design. Source : Jarrow Express 8th
June, 1888, p.7: report of opening.
Listing NGR: NZ3069464792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jarrow Express in 8 June, (1888), 7
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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