Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, PARK VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185615
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, PARK VIEW
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/01233/20
- Rights:
- © Mr Michael J. Saunders. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185615
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, PARK VIEW
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 PAUL, PARK VIEW
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 35380 72046
Details
WHITLEY BAY PARK VIEW (south side) NZ 37 SE 5/181 Church of St. Paul. 19.5.50 G.V. II Parish church. 1864 by Salvin; paid for by Duke of Northumberland. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Lakeland slate roof with flat stone gable copings and stone spire. Aisled nave with north and south porches; south tower; chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Doors in second-bay gabled-porches have double-chamfered surrounds. Lancet windows, some paired or grouped under roundels, those at east end stepped. 3-stage tower has door recessed under blind trefoil and painted drip mould; clock and paired shafted belfry openings. Mask corbel table and octagonal spire; half-octagonal east stair turret. Enclosed passage on north to vestry. Cross finials. Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings. Double-chamfered arches to 5-bay north and 4-bay south nave arcades with moulded octagonal capitals on round piers. Similar chancel arch on shafted corbels and tower arches in fifth bay to nave choir and to south aisle. Roof of alternating tie beams and corbelled arch-braced collars; stencil decoration to plainer chancel roof. Octagonal font with dog-tooth ornament. Glass in west window commemorates son William, dated 1883, of William Bourtland Wilkinson; in north aisle by Wailes and Strang in first bay, in third by Camm and Co., Smethwick, Birmingham dated 1901. Historical note: W.B. Wilkinson of Newcastle patented a successful reinforced concrete in 1854. Sources: J.M. Brown 'W. B. Wilkinson and his place in the history of reinforced concrete'. Transactions of the Newcomen Society vol. XXXIX, 1966-67. W.F. Cassie 'Early Reinforced Concrete in Newcastle upon Tyne', Structural Engineer, April 1955, pp 134-7.
Listing NGR: NZ3538072046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sructural Engineer in April, (1955), 134-7
Brown, J M, Transactions of the Newcomen Society in WB Wilkinson And His Place In The History Of Reinforced Concrete, (1966-1967)
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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