West Avenue, Church of All Saints

HER Number:
8913

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
West Avenue, Church of All Saints

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

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. 1885-1887 by R.J. Johnson; tower 1896. Sandstone ashlar with moulded plinth; roofs of plain tiles over nave and chancel, Welsh slate else- where. West tower with porches; aisled nave and chancel. Perpendicular style. 3-stage tower has high 4-light window with reticulated tracery; small 2-light square-headed window above; high 3-light transomed belfry openings with sill string; angle buttresses. l0 clerestory windows to nave, 5 to chancel, all of 2 lights and square-headed; similar windows varying from 2 to 4 lights in aisles; very big 7-light 2-centred-arched east window. Angle buttresses to east front; double door in north-west porch. Tudor flower corbel tables and battlemented parapets; gargoyles to tower corbel table above quatrefoiled band. Interior shows painted plaster walls with ashlar dressings; panelled dado; arch-braced collar-beam roof with painted carved bosses. Octagonal piers with high plinths to 5-bay nave and 2-bay chancel arcades. High chancel arch and tower arch; high-quality panelling by Hedley in chancel and tower baptistry; rood screen also by Hedley. Glass includes east window by Heaton, Butler and Baynes of London. Elaborately-carved Gothic font and cover. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424100

Northing:
567750

Grid Reference:
NZ424100567750

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/23