Scotland Head, Church of St. Paul

HER Number

6011

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Scotland Head, Church of St. Paul

Place

Winlaton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Parish Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

1827-9 by Ignatius Bonomi. Brown ironstone with western tower. Inside, a flat ceiling on cast-iron braces and octagonal columns with four arches. One-bay chancel with roof lights above the altar. Five light eastern window. The others a Tudor-Perp favoured by Bonomi and unusual in this area in the 1820s. Chancel screen 1898 and pulpit 1894 by W.S. Hicks. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

417550

Northing

561930

Grid Reference

NZ417550561930

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey map 1850; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 4/19; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1985, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 507; W. Bourn, 1896, History of the Parish of Ryton, pp 138-143; N.G. Rippeth, 1990, Blaydon in old picture postcards