Sailors Bethel
HORATIO STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318881
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sailors Bethel
- Statutory Address:
- HORATIO STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318881
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sailors Bethel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORATIO STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- HORATIO STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26263 64188
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/01/2016
NZ 26 SE
12/316
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
HORATIO STREET (north side),
Sailors Bethel
(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by Julius Benet Ltd. (former Seamen's Bethel))
G.V. II
Former seamen's nonconformist chapel. 1875 by Thomas Oliver. Sunday School room 1900 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Sandstone ashlar retaining wall at left; brick with ashlar dressings; roof of small thick dark slates; lead-covered flèche. Built on steep slope: main elevation to Horatio Street 2 storeys; rear to City Road one storey. 3 left bays; 3-bay chapel at right. Third, entrance, bay under gable has square-headed double door with nook shafts; HIS carved in shield above. Quatrefoil light over. 2 left bays under gable have tall sashes with trefoiled heads above retaining wall. Stone mullioned-and-transomed window over door. Cusped lancets to chapel, and tall 2-light east window in 3-sided apse with head-stopped drip-mould; gargoyles flank this window under gable. Steeply-pitched hipped roof to chapel with tall round central flèche on belfry. A prominent landmark above the Quayside.
Listing NGR: NZ2626364188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304635
- 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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