Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen
Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen
HER Number
              9166
          District
              Newcastle
          Site Name
              Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen
          Place
              Newcastle
          Map Sheet
              NZ26SW
          Class
              Religious Ritual and Funerary
          Site Type: Broad
              Place of Worship
          Site Type: Specific
              Parish Church
          General Period
              POST MEDIEVAL
          Specific Period
              Victorian 1837 to 1901
          Form of Evidence
              Extant Building
          Description
              Parish church, declared redundant lst January 1984. 1868 by Johnson. Snecked
sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings.
Aisled nave with north-west tower and low west porch; north transept; chancel
with north aisle. Decorated style. 3-stage tower over aisle has triple belfry
openings, corbel table, and battlements with corner flying buttresses to
tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes. West porch has shafts and label
strings to square-headed central window and flanking doors; high aisle
windows, boarded up in north and west and with bar tracery on south; larger
east window also boarded up. Steeply-pitched roofs to nave and aisles.
Interior: stripped except for alabaster memorials in memory of members of
the Cruddas family and mosaic after Holman Hunt "Light of the World" in memory
of Rev. Joseph Duncan, vicar 1901-11. Glass removed. LISTED GRADE 2
          sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings.
Aisled nave with north-west tower and low west porch; north transept; chancel
with north aisle. Decorated style. 3-stage tower over aisle has triple belfry
openings, corbel table, and battlements with corner flying buttresses to
tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes. West porch has shafts and label
strings to square-headed central window and flanking doors; high aisle
windows, boarded up in north and west and with bar tracery on south; larger
east window also boarded up. Steeply-pitched roofs to nave and aisles.
Interior: stripped except for alabaster memorials in memory of members of
the Cruddas family and mosaic after Holman Hunt "Light of the World" in memory
of Rev. Joseph Duncan, vicar 1901-11. Glass removed. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
              423180
          Northing
              563220
          Grid Reference
              NZ423180563220
    Sources
              Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/134