ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY

ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, WORSWICK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245033
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY
Statutory Address:: ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, WORSWICK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245033
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY
Statutory Address 1:: ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, WORSWICK STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST ANDREWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, WORSWICK STREET

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District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 25103 64352

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NZ 2564 SW WORSWICK STREET (Northwest side) 1833/21/10078 St Andrew's Roman Catholic Church and attached Presbytery

GV II

Parish church built c.1880 and attached presbytery built 1865 to designs Edward Welby Pugin. Stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Presbytery has rock-faced plinth with chamfered ashlar band. Hipped roof with 2 moulded ashlar ridge stacks and bracketed eaves. 2 storey. Street front has 3 windows with central tall staircase window in pointed arched surround with hood mould and y-tracery. Either side single triple plain sashes each with a moulded segment arched head. Above moulded band with carved stops, and above single similar triple windows on either side. To left a passage doorway with chamfered pointed arched surround. Right return has similar single and 2-light windows. Set back entrance facade has doorway to left reached up 6 steps with plank door with ornate iron hinges and overlight, to right two 2-lightcross casement windows with leaded lattice glazing and stained glass panels. Above three similar 2-light cross casements. INTERIOR retains original wooden staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread and moulded handrail, original marble fireplaces on ground floor, original doors, shutters, plaster coving and skirting boards. Church has rock-faced stone work with ashlar dressings, moulded eaves band and ashlar coped gables with kneelers. Continuous moulded cill band. Chamfered plinth. Nave with north aisle and octagonal ended chancel. West front has glazed iron canopy over entrance. Central pointed arched doorway in deeply moulded surround with hood mould. Above large rose window with 6 outer quatrefoils. In gable apex 3 graduated lancets. South, street front has 6 tall 3-light pointed arched windows with different tracery to each window and between single tall buttresses. Octagonal ended chancel has single 2-1ight pointed arch windows with different tracery to each face with tall buttresses between. Small gabled vestry to north has single pointed arched window with 3 graduated lancets. INTERIOR has 5 bay north nave arcade with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. Elaborate wooden roof. West galley with organ supported on 2 tall iron columns and an inserted glazed screen. Contemporary wooden pews and octagonal pulpit. These two contrasting buildings form an integral unit, though the presbytery , by the important Victorian architect Edward Welby Pugin, is of a higher architectural quality than the later, but also impressive, parish church.

Listing NGR: NZ2510364352

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.