Memorial Church, Social Centre and Ministers House
MEMORIAL CHURCH, SOCIAL CENTRE AND MINISTERS HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300159
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Church, Social Centre and Ministers House
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL CHURCH, SOCIAL CENTRE AND MINISTERS HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300159
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Church, Social Centre and Ministers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL CHURCH, SOCIAL CENTRE AND MINISTERS HOUSE, ALBION 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.
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:
- MEMORIAL CHURCH, SOCIAL CENTRE AND MINISTERS HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
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:
- NZ 35603 68748
Details
TYNEMOUTH ALBION ROAD (north side) NZ 3568 NE North Shields. 12/36 19. 9. 80 Memorial Church, social centre and minister's house. (formerly listed as Memorial Methodist G.V. Church) II Non-conformist church; Sunday School now social centre; and minister's house. 1889-91 by F.R.N. Haswell for Wesleyan Methodists at expense of J.Robinson in memory of daughter Elizabeth. Restored 1981 for North Tyneside Memorial Church. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roofs with stone gable copings and ornamental ridge tiles. Church: aligned north-south on corner site. Tower at ritual north-west. Aisled nave with south-west apsidal-ended chapel; transepts; chancel with porches. Paired recessed 2-centred arches to doors under 4-light west window with pink granite nook shafts; 3-stage tower has gargoyles to pierced parapet; octagonal stair turret continues to higher level. 2-storey aisles have 3 buttressed bays; 2-storey transepts have paired gables. 2 tall lancets to chancel and each of 3 sides of east apse. Angle buttresses with spirelets. Steeply- pitched roofs. Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado; cast iron columns; hammer-beam roof. Stiff-leaf capitals to gallery arcades on 3 sides; ball-flower capitals to tapered columns above; high chamfered chancel arch. Pierced arcaded parapet to wide central pulpit, flanked by vestry doors down steps, and organ loft. Most original fittings survive. Sunday school now social centre: one-storey link from church entrance to hall at right with gable facing street. Double boarded door under 2-centred arch in link; buttress between pairs of triple lancets under cinquefoil window in gable. Minister's house in similar materials and style at rear right return included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ3560368748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303281
- 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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