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:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
3381

Northing:
6716

Grid Reference:
NZ33816716

Lats/Lons:

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