Chapel of St Mary

CHAPEL OF ST MARY, JESMOND DENE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1325172
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
Chapel of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, JESMOND DENE ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1325172
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
Chapel of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, JESMOND DENE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, REID PARK ROAD

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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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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:
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, JESMOND DENE ROAD
Statutory Address:
CHAPEL OF ST MARY, REID PARK ROAD

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 25934 66524

Details

NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE REID PARK ROAD (east side) 9/322 14.6.54 Chapel of St. Mary G.V. II* Chapel. First half C12; early C14 alterations and mid-C14 addition of sacristy. Nave, chancel and north sacristy. Coursed squared sandstone. Roofless. Fragments of east end of nave survive and shafts of chancel arch, which have cushion capitals, (with scroll carving on that at south) and some voussoirs showing roll and zig-zag mouldings. 2-light opening with cusped tracery in south chancel wall, and 2 cusped ogee-headed lights in similar square-headed opening in north sacristy wall. North door in sacristy. Interior shows piscinae: in chancel south wall and sacristy. east wall. Walls survive up to a height of about 4 metres. Source: W.F . Dendy in Archaeologia Aeliana 3rd series vol. I pp.130-147; M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland vol. XIII 1930 pp.298-310.

Listing NGR: NZ2593466524

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
304809
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Dodds, M H, The Victoria History of the County of Northumberland, (1930), 298-310
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana - Third Series, Vol. 1, (), 130-147

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,

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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