Jesmond United Reformed Church and Hall Attached
JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND HALL ATTACHED, BURDON TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319998
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Jesmond United Reformed Church and Hall Attached
- Statutory Address:
- JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND HALL ATTACHED, BURDON TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319998
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jesmond United Reformed Church and Hall Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND HALL ATTACHED, BURDON TERRACE
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:
- JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND HALL ATTACHED, BURDON TERRACE
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 25118 65855
Details
NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BURDON TERRACE (north side)
Jesmond.
9/136 Jesmond United Reformed
17.12.71 Church. (Formerly listed
as Jesmond Presbyterian
Church) and hall attached.
G.V. II
Non-conformist church. 1887-8 by W.L. Newcombe. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings: roofs of graduated Lakeland slate with
bright red terra-cotta ridge tiles, stone cross finial. Nave and shallow
paired transepts; chancel with vestries to rear under caretaker's flat. Aligned
north-south. Ritual south-west tower. Free Gothic style. Steps up to paired
half-glazed doors and overlights recessed in west porch. Paired pink granite
shafts, with ashlar stiff-leaf capitals, support paired 2-centred arches.
Gabled drip-mould above larger arch over porch. Two 3-light windows above,
almond-shaped window in gable peak under 5 stepped lancets with slits. Stone
cross finial; angle buttresses with stone spirelet at left. 3-stage tower has
3-light window in first stage, 2 small quatrefoil lights in second, tall paired
2-light belfry openings in third under parapet with pinnacles and spirelet;
angle buttresses. Cusped lancets elsewhere, paired in clerestory and gabled
transepts. Interior: painted plaster above boarded dado; king-post roof on
shafted brackets. 4-bay arcades have round pink granite columns with ashlar
plinths and capitals; ashlar half-column responds; double-chamfered 2-centred
arches have flower-stopped continuous drip mould. Tall double-chamfered chancel
arch with corbelled inner shaft. Barrel roof to chancel. Gallery in west end
above vestibule. Organ with stencilled decoration fills chancel; Gothic-
style central pulpit and sounding-board; similar-style communion table.
Octagonal font on green marble shafts. Glass in east and transept windows by
Kempe and Co; in west by Dearle of Morris and Co. High relief war memorial
by Gilbert with figures of soldiers and St. George and angel flanking
Crucifixion. Battle honour of Tyneside Scottish Regiment in W.W.I. Hall,
attached to west front by 3-bay arcaded passage, has paired 3-light windows
under gable containing 3 cusped slits; buttresses; roof has small gabled
ventilators.
Listing NGR: NZ2511865855
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304441
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17821
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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