Percy Main, Church of St. John The Evangelist

HER Number

7310

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Percy Main, Church of St. John The Evangelist

Place

Percy Main

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

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

Parish church. 1862 by Salvin for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; slate roof with stone gable coping. Aisled nave with south porch, priest's door to chancel. Two tall west lancet windows. Corbelled gabled bell-cote. Cross finials to nave and chancel roofs. Fleur-de-lys finial to porch. Interior - plaster, nave arcades, arches to windows and doors, arch-braced collar-truss roof. Painted wooden First World War memorial panle 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. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

433810

Northing

567160

Grid Reference

NZ433810567160

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/119