Trinity House Gate and Chapel
TRINITY HOUSE GATE AND CHAPEL, BROAD CHASE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1116418
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Trinity House Gate and Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- TRINITY HOUSE GATE AND CHAPEL, BROAD CHASE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1116418
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Trinity House Gate and Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRINITY HOUSE GATE AND CHAPEL, BROAD CHASE
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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:
- TRINITY HOUSE GATE AND CHAPEL, BROAD CHASE
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 25370 64009
Details
NZ 2564 SW and NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BROAD CHASE (west side)
21/125 and 24/125 Trinity House gate and chapel.
G.V. I
Gatehouse and chapel. Street front of a range of buildings around a courtyard. Mostly C17 incorporating earlier buildings; restoration C19, including gatehouse refronting dated 1841. Sandstone, coursed and squared to chapel and ashlar to gatehouse, with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Forms part of U-shaped range around courtyard. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Tudor-arched gateway at left under paired 4-light windows with tracery; chapel at right has gable to street containing restored 4-light window; 2 blocked square openings below. Round-headed empty niches flank chapel window; roundel in peak of asymmetrical gable. Rear of chapel is entrance hall of Trinity House, at first floor level, and has Classical-style flight of steps and pedimented front of 3 bays, with narrow sashes flanking double half-glazed door; bays defined by Tuscan pilasters. Interior of chapel has panelled wall above boarded dado; boarded ceiling to roof with moulded tie beams. Complete furnishings of pews and pulpit of mid C17 with carved cherubs, strapwork and small balustrades; half-glazed west screen separates chapel from entrance hall. The secretary's room adjoining the chapel is the rear first floor of No. 31 Broad Chare (q.v.) and was altered in 1850. Sources: Knowles and Boyle Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, Newcastle 1892; McCombie 'The buildings of Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne" in Archaeologia Aeliana 5 XIII, Newcastle 1985.
Listing NGR: NZ2537064010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Knowles, , Boyle, , Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, (1892)
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana - Fifth Series, Vol. 8, (1985)
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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