Sheriff Hill, Church Road, Church of St. John

HER Number

8320

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Sheriff Hill, Church Road, Church of St. John

Place

Sheriff Hill

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

1825 by Ions, a builder who worked for John Green but here acted as architect.
Ashlar with low pitched Welsh slate roof. West tower with very tall stone spire,
a land and sea mark. Simple Gothick preaching box with very short chancel, lancet
windows. Tower projects in centre of three-bay west front, and has diagonal
buttresses and battlements. Three pairs of cusped lancets with quatrefoil spandrels
and hoodmoulds. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

426460

Northing

560480

Grid Reference

NZ426460560480

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 11/10; Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Sheriff Hill Conservation Area, pp 79-82 (Supplementary Planning Guidance); Gateshead Council, July 2003, Sheriff Hill Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 14-19; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 20