Tyne and Wear HER(6304): Westgate Road, Baptist Church - Details
6304
Newcastle
Westgate Road, Baptist Church
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Baptist Chapel
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
Baptist church, with Sunday School, ancilliary buildings and hall attached. 1885-6 by James Cubitt. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roofs. Church aligned north-south. Nave with ritual west porches to Westgate Road, aisles and apse. Paired round-headed open arches to west doors under paired 2-light windows. Large curved triangular window in gable peak. High north-west octagonal belfry with nook shafts, stone spire and wrought iron finial. Interior - painted plaster with ashlar dressings above panelled dado. Gothic panelling to east end. Wide aisle arches on oval piers. West vestibule of panelling and galss with bracketed, Gothic-style gallery above. Sunken east font of cream marble with banded coloured marble coping, has steps down at each side. 2-bay gabled arcaded link on Westgate Road front to front of Sunday School. Ancilliray buildings similar in style. Hall to north-east has 3 tall 9-light windows on rear and east front. Interior - gallery on two sides. Historical note - this congregation has its origins in the 17th century Tuthill Stairs chapel. LISTED GRADE 2
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Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 11/584; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey; 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 431