Felling, Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick

HER Number

7078

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Felling, Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick

Place

Felling

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Built by Charles Walker of Newcastle in 1893-5. Roman Catholic parish church. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Interior - barrel roof on shafted brackets with struts. Ornate altar and arcaded sanctuary with niches. Pulpit of alabaster on Frosterley marble base by Emley of Newcastle. Stone and marble communion rail. Historical note - the first St. Patrick's RC Church was built in 1841 to a design by John Dobson at Felling Shore. Work started on a new church on Felling High Street in 1873, but the partly finished church was destroyed by fire in 1877. Walker's church cost over £14,000. The old church at Felling Shore became an engine shed for colliery locomotives. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

427660

Northing

561950

Grid Reference

NZ427660561950

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 6/37; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 271; P. Haywood, Around Felling High Street; J.M. Hewitt, The Township of Heworth; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Felling-St-Patrick [accessed 7th March 2016]