Wallsend, Station Road, Church of St. Luke

HER Number

7374

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wallsend, Station Road, Church of St. Luke

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

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. 1885-87 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood; 1895 west vestries; 1906 tower, chancel and lady chapel; land given by G.B. Hunter. Rock-faced snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof. Early English style. Central west double door. 3-stage tower with lancet windows and belfry openings. Nave bellcote. Interior - painted plaster with ashlar dressings. Boarded kingpost roofs. Dog-tooth moulding to arcade piers. Open arches to chancel. Glass in north aisle by Baguley, Newcastle; west window in north aisle is South African War Memorial; east window is First World War Memorial by Whilhemina Geddes of Dublin. Shares site with contemporary school and rectory built of same stone. LISTED GRADE 2.

Easting

429950

Northing

566310

Grid Reference

NZ429950566310

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/168