Claremont Road, Church of St. Luke

This church was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Parish church. Dated 1886; completed 1890. By Oliver and Leeson. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Short nave with south porch; paired transepts; chancel with north vestry and south apsed chapel. C13 style. Gabled porch has double panelled door, and overlight with cusps, in deep chamfered surround with moulded head. Plate tracery to 3-light windows; 2-light traceried windows in chapel and vestry; 5-light east window with sill and drip strings. Buttress. Steeply pitched roofs, rounded over chapel; cross finial to chancel; west belfry with high pyramidal roof. Source: I. Curry 'Some Aspects of Church Building in Northumberland' in W.S.F. Pickering ed. A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle. Stocksfield 1981.' {1}.
Built on land donated by Christian and William Reid (of Reid's Brewery). It replaced a temporary iron and wood building.