Armstrong Road, RC Church of St. Joseph

HER Number

9821

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Armstrong Road, RC Church of St. Joseph

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Roman Catholic Church

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

1929 by Stienlet & Maxwell, opened October 1931 and consecrated March 22nd 1938. A successful brick-and-pantiled church of Mediterranean inspiration, but more straight-forwardly Romanesque. The church is thought to have replaced an earlier corrugated iron building of 1903 which stood on the opposite side of armstrong Road. The parish was taken over by Father J W Milroy in 1924. Recorded in 2014 by DPP Uk Ltd. LOCAL LIST

Easting

421430

Northing

563910

Grid Reference

NZ421430563910

Sources

N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 514; DPP UK Ltd. 2014, St Josephs Church, Armstrong Road, Benwell - Historic Building Recording; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/(offset)/80