Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BELLEVUE BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248532
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BELLEVUE BANK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248532
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BELLEVUE 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 HELEN, BELLEVUE BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25559 60319
Details
1. BELLEVUE BANK 5099 (north side)
NZ 2560 10/53 Church of St Helen
II*
2. Parish Church to new Parish formed out of St John's. 1876 by John Wardle. Built at a cost of £13,000, the gift of Edward Joicey of Whinney House, Durham Road (qv). Large, solid Early English style. Coursed, rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Graduated lakeland slate roof. Cruciform with short apsidal chancel having cross- gabled vestry, large transepts and south-west tower with stone broach spire; north- west balancing porch. Stepped buttresses, lancets single and grouped, tower doorway with mouldings and nook-shafts.
Interior of snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Arch braced timber roof on carved corbels. Carved stone reredos, pulpit and font. Interesting glass:
1. Chancel, 5 lancets, style of Morris & Co. Miracles. Transfiguration, Sermon on Mount.
2. N & S transepts, evangelists and prophets, possibly Kempe.
3. Nave, north side, Burne-Jones designs, saints.
One window in south transept signed G J Baguley, Newcastle, 1902. Brass plate to Edward Joicey, the donor.
Listing NGR: NZ2555960319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430168
- 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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