St Bedes Parochial Church Centre

ST BEDES PAROCHIAL CHURCH CENTRE, ALBERT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268474
Date first listed:
20-May-1996
List Entry Name:
St Bedes Parochial Church Centre
Statutory Address:
ST BEDES PAROCHIAL CHURCH CENTRE, ALBERT ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268474
Date first listed:
20-May-1996
List Entry Name:
St Bedes Parochial Church Centre
Statutory Address 1:
ST BEDES PAROCHIAL CHURCH CENTRE, ALBERT ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ST BEDES PAROCHIAL CHURCH CENTRE, ALBERT ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 32388 65012

Details

JARROW
NZ 36 NW ALBERT ROAD
(North side)
388- /1/10001
St Bede's Parochial Church Centre

II

Cooperative headquarters, now church centre. 1919-22, converted 1977. Red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped Westmorland slate roofs with 2 brick wall stacks and ashlar caps. Ashlar plinth, quoins, first floor cill band and dentilated eaves cornice. Office range with hall to rear. Street front has 9 windows arranged 2:2:1:2:2 with slightly projecting centre and wings. Central doorway has double panel doors and very ornate overlight in ashlar surround with Ionic columns, pulvinated frieze, open pediment and swagged cartouche. Either side 4 glazing bar sashes with raised brick keystones and blind panels over. Above a central window in recessed rusticated ashlar surround with concave jambs and a raised and carved keystone, either side 4 glazing bar sashes. Left return has projecting stack with panel to upper floor decorated with carved swags, to left a single sash with sash above and to right a door with overlight and a sash above. Hall to rear has 4 boarded Diocletian windows on each side and a blocked similar opening to the rear, with single storey offices around with blocked windows and 2 doorways with moulded ashlar surrounds. INTERIOR has entrance and staircase hall with raised and fielded panels, Doric columns arid pilasters plus round arches with moulded imposts and keystones. Single flight and return staircase with iron balustrade and brass hand rail lit by small Venetian window. Panelled boardroom has moulded plaster ceiling, moulded door surrounds, the double ones with carved friezes and moulded hoods, all with panel doors.


Listing NGR: NZ3238865012

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461788
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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.

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