West Lane, Church of St. John the Evangelist

HER Number

7260

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

West Lane, Church of St. John the Evangelist

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

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. 1869 by E. Bassett Keeling. Sandstone, coursed and squared, with bands of red sandstone; rendered north nave wall. Welsh slate roof with stone copings. Nave and chancel with continuous shorter south aisle. Three-sided apse. West door in aisle in arch. Arched lancet windows in clerestory. Crescents (emblem of Dukes of Northumberland) carved in coping of buttresses. Interior - brick with ashlar dressings. Scissor-braced roof. Still-leaf arcade capitals. Priest's door under high pointed hood-mould. Stencilled decoration to chancel roof. Chancel floor of tiles and Frosterley marble contains brass memorial to first vicar, J.S. Blair, died 1890. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

427920

Northing

570990

Grid Reference

NZ427920570990

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/13; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 79