Church of St Ann
CHURCH OF ST ANN, CITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1355222
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ann
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANN, CITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1355222
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ann
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANN, CITY 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:
- CHURCH OF ST ANN, CITY 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 26061 64277
Details
NZ 26 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CITY ROAD (north side)
12/161 Church of St. Ann 14/6/54
G.V. I
Parish church. 1764-68 by William Newton for the Corporation of Newcastle. Sandstone ashlar; Lakeland slate roof. Rectangular with west porch and shallow east apse; west tower above nave. 3 steps up to Tuscan tetrastyle porch with pediment. Large overlight with glazing bars above panelled double door. Top pediment on west elevation, above which is a square clock tower with floor band and cornice with urn finials; 2 narrow octagonal stages above have arched recesses with impost strings; cornices; stone spire. 0Arched recesses with sill and impost strings hold 4 nave windows, reduced in C19, and 3 apse windows, all round-headed with glazing bars. Gutter cornice and coped parapet. Interior: Painted plaster above boarded dado; renewed panelled plaster ceiling. High panelled dado to apse with reredos of 1911 by Ricks and Charlewood in classical style: Corinthian attached columns supporting a broken dentilled pediment Archivolts and impost string to 3 windows; west bay contains south vestry and north choir vestry, flanking entrance bay. Monuments: low-relief urn on mount by Davies commemorating Joseph Crawhall, mayor and sheriff of Newcastle, died 1853; bracketed Frosterly marble surround to plaque in memory of George Clifford, died 1853. Gothic-style stone memorial plaque on east wall by Pearson to George Heriot, first vicar. The church was built as a chapel of ease to All Saints and replaced a medieval chapel.
Listing NGR: NZ2606364276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304466
- 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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