St John's Cemetery, chapels and archway

HER Number:
6411

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
St John's Cemetery, chapels and archway

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Cemetery Chapel

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The cemetery (HER 5285) opened in 1857 with buildings probably by Johnstone and Knowles. The western chapel is Church of England, the eastern one Nonconformist. Chapels - snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roofs with overlapping stone gable copings. Archway with crowning tower, flanked by chapels. Gothic style. 2-centred shafted arch under pinnacled gable with bracketed niche; high octagonal tower with cusped lancets, pierced battlements and corner pinnacles, tall octagonal spire with lucarnes and pierced bands. Porches have 2-centred arched doors and 2-light windows under pierced parapets. Similar windows in 3-bay chapels and 4-light windows in end gables. Stone cross finials to roofs. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
422520

Northing:
563670

Grid Reference:
NZ422520563670

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage, 2003, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest GD3557; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 514; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 11/230