Westgate Road Baptist Church, Sunday School and Hall
WESTGATE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HALL, WESTGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121968
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate Road Baptist Church, Sunday School and Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WESTGATE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HALL, WESTGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121968
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate Road Baptist Church, Sunday School and Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTGATE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HALL, WESTGATE ROAD
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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:
- WESTGATE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY SCHOOL AND HALL, WESTGATE ROAD
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 23387 64348
Details
NZ 26 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WESTGATE ROAD (north side) 11/584 Westgate Road Baptist Church, Sunday School and Hall. G.V. II Baptist church, with school, ancillary buildings and hall attached. 1885-6 by James Cubitt. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roofs. Church: aligned north-south. Nave with ritual west porches to Westgate Road, aisles, and 5- sides apse. Paired round-headed open arches to west doors under paired 2-light windows. Large curved triangular window in gable peak. Paired 2-light windows in wide, gabled aisles. High north-west octagonal belfry with nook shafts, stone spire and wrought iron finial. Steeply-pitched roofs; 5-sided hip at east. Interior shows painted plaster with ashlar dressings above panelled dado; arch-braced boarded roof; Gothic panelling to east end. Wide 2-centred aisle arches on oval piers. West vestibule of panelling and glass with bracketed, Gothic-style gallery above. Sunken east font, of cream marble with banded coloured marble coping, has 4 steps down at each side. 2-bay gabled arcaded link on Westgate Road front to 2-bay gabled front of Sunday School in similar style with right porch containing shoulded door. Swept eaves to pyramidal roof of porch. Ancillary buildings in similar style to north. Hall to north-east has 3 tall, 9-light transomed windows on rear and on east front; gabled rear porch; steeply-pitched hipped roof with swept eaves. Interior shows gallery on two sides facing windows. Historical note: this congregation has its origins in the C17 Tuthill Stairs chapel.
Listing NGR: NZ2338764348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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