Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PILGRIM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1106329
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PILGRIM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1106329
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, PILGRIM 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 ALL SAINTS, PILGRIM STREET
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 25260 64017
Details
NZ 2564 SW and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE PILGRIM STREET NZ 2563 NW (south end off) 21/452 and 24/452 Church of All Saints 14.6.54 G.V. I Parish church; now urban studies centre and concert hall. 1786-96 by David Stephenson replacing medieval church. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Oval plan, with apses on short axis west-east; south chapel and vestry flank portico and tower. Classical style, with baroque tower. Greek Doric tetrastyle portico has dentilled pediment; flanking windows have tripartite sashes in Ionic pilasters under shallow lunettes with glazing bars; voussoirs continuous with chanelled rustication. Rusticated plinth supports paired Ionic pilasters defining bays, with top entablature. Returns have similar window treatment to 2-bay chapel and vestry. Oval continues plinth and Ionic Order framing segmental-headed windows; round-headed gallery windows have balustrades; top dentilled cornice continuous with pediments of tower. 4-stage tower has segmental-headed windows under dentilled pediments; tall arched panels above with louvred lunettes under dentilled cornice; clock faces flanked by plinths of paired diagonal columns; tripartite windows above. Set-back top stage has round balustrade and set-back open-arched belfry with paired corner columns; top spire. Double door in portico and in west apse. Both apses have blind panels, the upper balustraded and with swags. Fluted impost strings. Low, flat-coped walls flank 3 flights of steps to portico. Interior: painted plaster above panelled mahogany dado, moulded plaster ceiling with much leaf and flower ornament; dentilled cornice. Panelled pews join fluted Doric columns supporting balcony, all mahogany. Corinthian Order in east apse; organ in west concealing exit. Vestibule under tower contains replica of medieval font with heraldic shields; memorials on walls include marble plaque commemorating David Stephenson, architect, died 1819, by Davies; low-relief obelisk on mount to Edward Moses d.1813, son of the master of the Grammar School, by Davies with Greek and Latin inscriptions; and to Joseph Garnett, died 1796, a bracketed marble slab with book and drapery, by Craggs. Former vestry contains boards of Creed, Lord's Prayer and Commandments from church. Source: T. Sopwith A Historical and Descriptive Account of All Saints' Church in Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle 1826. Tyne and Wear Museums Service The Tyneside Classical Tradition 1980.
Listing NGR: NZ2526064017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sopwith, T, A Historical and Descriptive Account of All Saints' Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, (1826)
Laing Art Gallery Catalogue in The Tyneside Classical Tradition, (1980)
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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