Tyne and Wear HER(8978): 270 to 286 Westgate Road, Prudhoe St Mission - Details
8978
Newcastle
270 to 286 Westgate Road, Prudhoe St Mission
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Mission Hall
Mission Hall
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
Shops, mission hall and offices. 1900-2 by Crouch and Butler, Birmingham, as
Wesleyan Mission Hall. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of dark
slates with lead dome. Free Art Nouveau style. 4 storeys and attics, with 5-storey
left tower; 9 bays. Corner double door with pilasters, frieze and cartouches,
recessed in quadrant-moulded surround; rusticated floor pilasters with cartouches.
Upper floors have group of 4 two-storey round-headed windows, with long keystones
and stone mullions and transoms, flanked by 2-storey oriels in first bay and 2
right end bays. Much carved Jacobean-style ornament. Dentilled cornice; stepped
gables over round-headed windows. Corbelled-out left corner tower is octagonal
with cable-moulded bow windows. Mansard roof has finials, egg-and-dart corniced
chimneys; high octagonal dome over tower has cartouches, masks, lucarnes and
top lantern with spike-and-ball finial. Foundation stones bear names of
Methodist circuits of area and of T.H. Bainbridge, J.P., and Sir W.H. Stephenson,
J.P. Left return to Corporation Street of 3 storeys and 6 bays has high broken
segmental pediments over 3 double doors to school and hall; tall double keystones
to ground floor mullioned-and-transomed windows; upper floors in similar style to
Westgate Road front. LISTED GRADE 2
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564190
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Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 18/582; Brenda Whitelock, n.d., Timepieces of Newcastle, page 19; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey