Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH BANK, WALLSEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025326
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH BANK, WALLSEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025326
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH BANK, WALLSEND
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 PETER, CHURCH BANK, WALLSEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30974 66708
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/01/2013
NZ 36 NW
7/146 (inset)
18.8.47
WALLSEND
CHURCH BANK (south side)
Church of St. Peter
II*
G.V.
Parish church dated 1809 and restoration 1892 on brass plaque in porch. Paid
for by tontine and partly by Dean and Chapter of Durham. Coursed squared
sandstone with plinth; snecked sandstone additions of chancel with south
aisle, tower buttresses and stair turret. Roofs of Welsh slate; stone flags
to stair turret. Church: west tower with south porch; nave and north vestry;
chancel and south porch. Perpendicular style. Pointed-arched west door in
chamfered, moulded surround, in porch of 3-stage tower; 3-light windows and
2-light belfry openings in upper stages; buttresses with many offsets, slit
windows in octagonal stair turret; battlemented parapet with gargoyles. 4-bay
nave has 3-light windows; 2-light windows in vestry with elliptical-headed
door. Square-headed chancel windows under flower-ornamented string on grotesque
animal corbels; string continuous to gable above 5-light 2-centred-arched east
window. Rough corbel table to nave. Pinnacled battlements. Interior plaster
with ashlar dressings above panelled dado. Wide double-chamfered chancel arch
on octagonal columns from which spring side arches to aisle and organ chamber.
Cusped, collared, hammer-beam and king post nave roof, with large angels on
hammers; panelled chancel roof. Font resited from Holy Cross Church (q.v.)
in west baptistry; 3 sedilia in south chancel. Glass in south aisle by
Atkinson; in north aisle by Ethel Rhine Strang. Source: W. Richardson
History of the Parish of Wallsend, 1923 pp 123-144.
Listing NGR: NZ3097466708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Richardson, W, History of the Parish of Wallsend, (1923), 123-144
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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