Tyne and Wear HER(8727): Jesmond, Thornleigh Street, Church of St. Hilda - Details
8727
Newcastle
Jesmond, Thornleigh Street, Church of St. Hilda
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Parish church, originally daughter church of St. George, Jesmond. 1900-5 by Hicks
and Charlewood. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Graduated Lakeland slate
roof. Aisled nave and chancel, north-west belfry; north vestry. Perpendicular style.
Moulded 2-centred arch to double boarded door in west bay of north aisle; low
octagonal belfry at right. Square-headed 5-light windows in nave aisles, 2-light in
chancel. 5-light east window has 2-centred head and flowing tracery. Set-back
buttresses; roll-moulded parapet and gable coping with cross finial; hipped roof
to vestry. Tall central copper-covered fleche has swept eaves and slender iron cross
finial. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; pointed barrel roof. 4-bay
nave has alternate round and octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches on moulded
capitals; 2 octagonal piers to Lady chapel. Blind west arch; shouldered arch to
vestry door. Octagonal font has blind tracery and square flower bosses. War memorial
triptych by F.H. Newbery A.R.C.A. showing figures of soldier, sailor, locomotive
engineer and miner, with Saints Nicholas and Hilda, in cil, in north aisle. LISTED GRADE 2
2520
6647
NZ25206647
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/546; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 509; Alan Morgan, 2010, Jesmond from mines to mansions, pages 88-89