Gladstone Terrace, Baptist Church & Sunday School
Gladstone Terrace, Baptist Church & Sunday School
HER Number
8266
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gladstone Terrace, Baptist Church & Sunday School
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Baptist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
1877. Narrow courses of rusticated sandstone with ashlar dressings, in modified classical style. Two storeys, three bays, the centre wide and projecting with angle pilasters, entablature and pediment with carved ornament. First floor round arched window with archivolt crossed by impost string supported on two Ionic column mullions. Cill string. Ground floor triple arcade with round columns, archivolts, vermiculate keystones. Lower side bays with rounded corners to five-bay returns,
entablature and balustraded parapet. Segment headed windows above, round arched below. On east return, a one-storey link of two narrow bays to a two-storey, three-bay school house of similar style and materials with a short balancing wing to south. LISTED GRADE 2
entablature and balustraded parapet. Segment headed windows above, round arched below. On east return, a one-storey link of two narrow bays to a two-storey, three-bay school house of similar style and materials with a short balancing wing to south. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425680
Northing
562400
Grid Reference
NZ425680562400
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 7/90; Peter Ryder, 2017, The Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead; Vindomora Solutions, 2019. Durham Road Baptist Church Historic Building Recording.