Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Church of St. Helen

HER Number:
8250

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Church of St. Helen

Place:
Low Fell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Parish Church to new Parish formed out of St John's. 1876 by John Wardle. Built at a cost of £13,000, the gift of Edward Joicey of Whinney House, Durham Road (qv). Large, solid Early English style. Coursed, rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Graduated lakeland slate roof. Cruciform with short apsidal chancel having cross- gabled vestry, large transepts and south-west tower with stone broach spire; north- west balancing porch. Stepped buttresses, lancets single and grouped, tower doorway with mouldings and nook-shafts. Interior of snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Arch braced timber roof on carved corbels. Carved stone reredos, pulpit and font. Interesting glass: 1. Chancel, 5 lancets, style of Morris & Co. Miracles. Transfiguration, Sermon on Mount. 2. N & S transepts, evangelists and prophets, possibly Kempe. 3. Nave, north side, Burne-Jones designs, saints. One window in south transept signed G J Baguley, Newcastle, 1902. Brass plate to Edward Joicey, the donor. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting:
2555

Northing:
6031

Grid Reference:
NZ25556031

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/53; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Saltwell Conservation Area, p 65; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 29