Cross Way, Church of Holy Saviour

Cross Way, Church of Holy Saviour

HER Number
7316
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Cross Way, Church of Holy Saviour
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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. 1839-41 by John and Benjamin Green for Duke of Northumberland; chancel 1884; twentieth century west porch. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, dressings and buttresses; snecked sandstone vestry; ashlar west porch. Welsh slate roof. West tower, nave, chancel with north vestry and porch, south organ chamber now Lady Chapel. Perpenicular style. Truncated tower has one-storey porch, slit windows, battlemented parapet. Interior - plastered above moulded plaster dado. Gothic traceried hammer-beam roof; low-pitched king-post roof to chancel. Stencilled decoration on nave frieze. Panelled reredos and chancel fittings by W.S. Hicks. Glass by Powell Bros. of Leeds in south nave; Powell, Whitefriars, London in north nave; by Ward and Hughes in south chancel; by H.A. Payne in south chancel; by Wailes (and Strang) in north nave; by L.C. Evetts in south transept. Good quality anonymous glass in east windows. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
436470
Northing
569610
Grid Reference
NZ436470569610
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/52