Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355013
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355013
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S 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:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S TERRACE
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 33810 67169
Details
TYNEMOUTH ST. JOHN'S TERRACE
NZ 36 NW
(north side), Percy Main.
7/119
Church of St. John the
Evangelist.
II
Parish church. 1862 by Salvin for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked sandstone
with ashlar dressings and quoins; slate roof with flat stone gable copings on
kneelers. Aisled nave with south porch; short aisles to chancel. Moulded
pointed arch to south door in gabled porch; shouldered priest's door to chancel.
2 tall west lancets divided by massive buttress continuing to corbelled, gabled
bell-cote. Irregular-block jambs to lancets of aisles and clerestory, paired in
south nave aisle; 3 stepped east lancets. Cross finials to steeply-pitched
nave and chancel roofs, fleur-de-lis finial to porch. Interior: plaster;
chamfered 4-bay nave arcades; rear arches to windows and doors; chamfered chancel
arch with inner arch on shafted corbels; 2-bay arcades on low walls to chancel
aisles. Corbelled shafts to arch-braced cellar-truss nave roof. Painted wooden
First World War memorial panel in north aisle; glass in north aisle by Theophilus
Storey of Newcastle in 1892; illuminated Our Father on wood panel in chancel;
marble monument by G. Park, North Shields, to Arthur Tomlin Coates, vicar,
died 1897.
Listing NGR: NZ3381067169
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, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34471
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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