Tyne and Wear HER(9150): Byker, City Road, Church of St. Ann - Details
9150
Newcastle
Byker, City Road, Church of St. Ann
Byker
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Post Medieval
C18
Extant Building
Parish church. 1764-68 by William Newton for the Corporation of Newcastle.
Sandstone ashlar; Lakeland slate roof. Rectangular with west porch and shallow
east apse; west tower above nave. 3 steps up to Tuscan tetrastyle porch with
pediment. Large overlight with glazing bars above panelled double door. Top
pediment on west elevation, above which is a square clock tower with floor band
and cornice with urn finials; 2 narrow octagonal stages above have arched
recesses with impost strings; cornices; stone spire. 0Arched recesses with sill
and impost strings hold 4 nave windows, reduced in C19, and 3 apse windows, all
round-headed with glazing bars. Gutter cornice and coped parapet. Interior:
Painted plaster above boarded dado; renewed panelled plaster ceiling. High
panelled dado to apse with reredos of 1911 by Ricks and Charlewood in classical
style: Corinthian attached columns supporting a broken dentilled pediment
Archivolts and impost string to 3 windows; west bay contains south vestry and
north choir vestry, flanking entrance bay. Monuments: low-relief urn on mount
by Davies commemorating Joseph Crawhall, mayor and sheriff of Newcastle, died
1853; bracketed Frosterly marble surround to plaque in memory of George Clifford,
died 1853. Gothic-style stone memorial plaque on east wall by Pearson to
George Heriot, first vicar. The church was built as a chapel of ease to All
Saints and replaced a medieval chapel. LISTED GRADE 1
2606
6427
NZ26066427
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 12/161; Brenda Whitelock, 1992, Timepieces of Newcastle, p. 16; Thomas Oliver, 1844, Historical and Descriptive Reference to the Public Buildings on the Plan of the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 14 and 136; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare) , 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 427