Tyne and Wear HER(9152): Claremont Road, Church of St. Luke - Details
9152
Newcastle
Claremont Road, Church of St. Luke
Newcastle
NZ26NW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Parish Church
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
This church was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Parish church. Dated 1886; completed 1890. By Oliver and Leeson. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Short nave with south porch; paired transepts; chancel with north vestry and south apsed chapel. C13 style. Gabled porch has double panelled door, and overlight with cusps, in deep chamfered surround with moulded head. Plate tracery to 3-light windows; 2-light traceried windows in chapel and vestry; 5-light east window with sill and drip strings. Buttress. Steeply pitched roofs, rounded over chapel; cross finial to chancel; west belfry with high pyramidal roof. Source: I. Curry 'Some Aspects of Church Building in Northumberland' in W.S.F. Pickering ed. A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle. Stocksfield 1981.' {1}.
Built on land donated by Christian and William Reid (of Reid's Brewery). It replaced a temporary iron and wood building.
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565510
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Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/164 and 13/164; I. Curry
'Some Aspects of Church Building in Northumberland' in W.S.F. Pickering ed.
A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle. Stocksfield 1981.; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355224