Church of Holy Cross
CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, VALLEY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1299638
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, VALLEY GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1299638
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, VALLEY GARDENS
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 HOLY CROSS, VALLEY GARDENS
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:
- NZ3052067204
Details
NZ 36 NW
7/173
18.8.47
WALLSEND
VALLEY GARDENS (west end)
Holy Cross.
Church of Holy Cross
I
G.V.
Parish church. C12; C17 porch; restored 1909; roughly coursed and squared sand-
stone rubble; coursed squared sandstone porch. Nave, chancel and south porch.
South doorway of nave has inner arch behind corbelled arch; elliptical-headed
door opening in porch has chamfered surround and impost blocks. Stone benches.
Diagonal west buttresses. Interior: round base at west end of nave formerly
held font. Walls surviving to about a half-metre, except for doorways and
porch. Historical note: roof removed c.1797 by William Clarke of Dockwray
Square, North Shields, who intended to repair the church, but sold his
property in Wallsend without any work being done. Sources: W. Richardson
History of the Parish of Wallsend, 1927, 110-122. M. Hope Dodds History of
Northumberland vol. XIII 1930.
Listing NGR: NZ 30522 67208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Richardson, W, History of the Parish of Wallsend, (1923), 110-122
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Heddon on the Wall Newburn Long Benton Wallsend Chapelries Gosforth Cramlington Townships Benwell Elswick Heaton Byker Fenham Jesmond, Vol. 13, (1930)
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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