Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1186036
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH BANK
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- Date:
- 2001-01-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/03304/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1186036
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH BANK
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 MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH BANK
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 16679 65368
Details
NZ 16 NE NEWBURN CHURCH BANK (north side)
Newburn
7/26 (inset) Church of St. Michael and
21 October 1949 All Angels.
G.V. I
Parish church. Cll tower, Norman nave and chancel with later porch and windows.
C19 clerestory. Cruciform with aisles clasping west tower; south porch.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; plinth to chancel, chamfered plinth
to south transept and porch; graduated Lakeland slate roof with flat stone gable copings.
Gabled porch contains panelled double door in moulded 2-centred arch under niche with
statue. 3-stage tower has blocked round-headed west door with inserted small round-
headed window; similar window above; second stage has slit opening; belfry openings
round-headed containing 2 round-arched lights and central shaft. Clasping buttresses;
pyramidal roof and weathervane. Renewed lancet windows, paired in 6-bay aisles, and
stepped 3-light east window. Round clerestory windows. Diagonal buttresses to
transepts and set-back buttresses to chancel . Interior: Plaster with ashlar
dressings above boarded dado. Round piers with waterleaf square capitals support
plain arches of north arcade; south arcade has octagonal piers, moulded capitals and
double-chamfered pointed arches. C19 arches to tower aisles and to transept; double-
chamfered chancel arch. Arch-braced collar and king post roof to nave; crown-post to
chancel. North transept refitting in 1941 as war memorial. Chancel has tomb recess
on north side. Wall monument to Thomas Longbridge of Walbottle, died 1725, on south
side; classical style with bust in broken pediment. Glass in north aisle by Ballantine
and Gardiner, Edinburgh, 1904; in south aisle commemorating the Hedley family and their
help in establishing the bishopric of Newcastle in 1882. Source: M. Hope Dodds
History of Northumberland 1930, pp 118-28.
Listing NGR: NZ1667865368
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304346
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds, M H, The Victoria History of the County of Northumberland, (1930), 118-28
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34587
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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