Cleadon Lane, Church of All Saints
Cleadon Lane, Church of All Saints
HER Number
8047
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Cleadon Lane, Church of All Saints
Place
Cleadon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
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
This church was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Parish church. 1869 by R J Johnson, south aisle 1907. Snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, high-pitched roofs of Welsh slate with stone coping to nave and aisle, in Early English style. Nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel with 3-sided apse, north transept. 2 windows of 3 lights in nave and aisle; south door in chamfered opening between recessed columns on plinths, with drip mould; 2 buttresses to aisle. Transept has a 2-light window in the gable and an east door with flower stops to a drip-mould. Roof has stone cross finial at west, iron at east; above the chancel a hexagonal timber bellcote with Welsh slate spirelet and iron finial; chimney at the transept gable. Interior: south arcade of 2 wide bays, paintings of Garden of Gethsemane by J Eadie Read of Newcastle c.1914 in spandrels; apse paintings of Christ on the Cross and Christ in Majesty by Michael Hoare of Folkestone in 1967; 2-light west window war memorial by L C Evetts of Newcastle in 1948.'
When the church was constructed in 1869 it was enclosed by a wall with an irregular five-sided plan. When the south aisle was constructed, the south boundary wall of the churchyard was demolished and a new line further from the church established. The churchyard was never used for burials.
'Parish church. 1869 by R J Johnson, south aisle 1907. Snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, high-pitched roofs of Welsh slate with stone coping to nave and aisle, in Early English style. Nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel with 3-sided apse, north transept. 2 windows of 3 lights in nave and aisle; south door in chamfered opening between recessed columns on plinths, with drip mould; 2 buttresses to aisle. Transept has a 2-light window in the gable and an east door with flower stops to a drip-mould. Roof has stone cross finial at west, iron at east; above the chancel a hexagonal timber bellcote with Welsh slate spirelet and iron finial; chimney at the transept gable. Interior: south arcade of 2 wide bays, paintings of Garden of Gethsemane by J Eadie Read of Newcastle c.1914 in spandrels; apse paintings of Christ on the Cross and Christ in Majesty by Michael Hoare of Folkestone in 1967; 2-light west window war memorial by L C Evetts of Newcastle in 1948.'
When the church was constructed in 1869 it was enclosed by a wall with an irregular five-sided plan. When the south aisle was constructed, the south boundary wall of the churchyard was demolished and a new line further from the church established. The churchyard was never used for burials.
Easting
438580
Northing
562350
Grid Reference
NZ438580562350
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 3/8;
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2011, All Saints' Church, Cleadon, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Watching Brief;
Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas p192;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025247
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2011, All Saints' Church, Cleadon, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Watching Brief;
Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas p192;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025247