Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WEST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184227
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WEST LANE
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- 1999-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/01033/23
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184227
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WEST LANE
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 JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WEST LANE
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 27930 70992
Details
LONGBENTON WEST LANE (north side, off) NZ 27 SE Killingworth. 3/13 Church of St. John the 27.2.50 Evangelist. G.V. II Parish church. 1869 by E. Bassett Keeling. Sandstone, coursed and squared, with bands of red sandstone; rendered north nave wall. Welsh slate roof with stone copings. Nave and chancel with continuous shorter south aisle; 3-sided apse. West door in aisle has nook shafts and 2-centred arch under high pointed dripmould. 2-centred arches and red impost bands to cusped lancets, paired in clerestory; plate tracery to larger west and east windows. Crescents carved in coping of buttresses, clasping to nave and aisle. Interior: brick with ashlar dressings; rendered blind north arcade; ashlar lower section to chancel and plaster above. Scissor-braced roof. Stiff-leaf arcade capitals; bracketed shafts to moulded chancel arch and blind arch in north chancel wall. Priest's door under high pointed crocketed hood-mould. Stencilled decoration to chancel roof. Chancel floor of tiles and Frosterley marble contains brass memorial to first vicar, J. S. Blair, died 1890. Historical note: the crescent is the emblem of the Dukes of Northumberland.
Listing NGR: NZ2793070992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303257
- 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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