Westmorland Road, Church of St. Michael

HER Number

6324

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Westmorland Road, Church of St. Michael

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Roman Catholic Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Large structure which once presided over the terraces serving Armstrong’s Elswick Works, but whose setting is now sadly blighted. The high crossing is crowned by an octagonal lantern recalling Ely Cathedral. Roman Catholic parish church. 1889-91 by Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Snecked sandstone with ashlar-coped rock; faced plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge on transepts. Presbytery of rock-faced sandstone in irregular courses; ashlar dressings and quoins, and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

423140

Northing

563510

Grid Reference

NZ423140563510

Sources

Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/606; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Newcastle-upon-Tyne-St-Michael