Church of St. George

HER Number

7096

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Church of St. George

Place

Cullercoats

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Parish Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Built between 1882 and 1884 at a cost of around £30,000 by the Duke of Northumberland as a memorial to his father George Percy, the fifth Duke of Northumberland. The church was designed in medieval style and has a 180 feet spire. Parish church. By J.L. Pearson for 6th Duke of Northumberland as a memorial to his father. Squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Early English style. Interior - ashlar with groined vaulting. Nave arcades on round piers with moulded capitals. Terrazo and marble floor in chancel. Stone communion rail and pulpit. Stanhope marble base to square font on on pedestal. Art nouveau copper light fittings in aisles. East pier of south arcade has brasss plate commemorating laying of foundation stone 4th August 1882. Only local example of J.C. Pearson's work. LISTED GRADE 1

Easting

436440

Northing

570830

Grid Reference

NZ436440570830

Sources

History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 5/40; North Tyneside Council, 2009, Cullercoats Conservation Area Draft Character Appraisal