Churchill Street, Church of St. Mary

HER Number

7361

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Churchill Street, Church of St. Mary

Place

Willington

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

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. 1876 by Austin and Johnson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof. Nave and south porch; chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Door with elaborate hinges and handle in porch. Nave has lancet windows. Roof has bellcote, cross finials. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings, king-post roof. Corbelled arches. Aumbry with canopy in south chancel. Octagonal stone font. High quality rood screen commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; Gothic style pulpit is a World War One memorial. LISTED GRADE 2.

Easting

431790

Northing

567720

Grid Reference

NZ431790567720

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/150