Churchill Gardens, Church of the Holy Trinity
Churchill Gardens, Church of the Holy Trinity
HER Number
8888
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Churchill Gardens, Church of the Holy Trinity
Place
Jesmond
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Parish church. 1908 chancel by Hicks and Charlewood; 1920-22 nave and tower
completed by Hoare and Wheeler. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland
slate roof. West tower with north and south stair turrets; aisled nave and south
porch; aisled chancel and north vestry. Gothic style. Gabled porch has elliptical-
headed double door in hollow-chamfered surround with Tudor roses under crocketed
ogee dripmould. 3-stage tower has tall 3-light east window, 2-light window above,
and paired elliptical-headed belfry openings; set-back buttresses and tall spire.
Decorated windows, 2-light except for 5-light east window. Aisles buttressed.
Parapets, those of tower, nave and nave aisles battlemented. Interior: ashlar;
queen-post nave roof, arch-braced chancel roof. 6-bay round arcades on chamfered
square piers without capitals; aisle arches spring from shafts on piers. Chancel
and tower arches; 2 arches to Lady Chapel. Rear arches to windows. Tower
baptistry has stone font on pedestal and shafts with font cover; chancel arch has
rood beam. Oak panelling in chancel with inscription recording it as gift from
Dalgliesh family in thanksgiving for victory in 1918. Bronze plaques record gift
of chancel and Lady Chapel as memorials to Hoare family. Bronze panel records
gift of nave and tower by Dalgliesh family as Great War memorial. High quality glass
throughout with military insignia. 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. LISTED GRADE 2*
completed by Hoare and Wheeler. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland
slate roof. West tower with north and south stair turrets; aisled nave and south
porch; aisled chancel and north vestry. Gothic style. Gabled porch has elliptical-
headed double door in hollow-chamfered surround with Tudor roses under crocketed
ogee dripmould. 3-stage tower has tall 3-light east window, 2-light window above,
and paired elliptical-headed belfry openings; set-back buttresses and tall spire.
Decorated windows, 2-light except for 5-light east window. Aisles buttressed.
Parapets, those of tower, nave and nave aisles battlemented. Interior: ashlar;
queen-post nave roof, arch-braced chancel roof. 6-bay round arcades on chamfered
square piers without capitals; aisle arches spring from shafts on piers. Chancel
and tower arches; 2 arches to Lady Chapel. Rear arches to windows. Tower
baptistry has stone font on pedestal and shafts with font cover; chancel arch has
rood beam. Oak panelling in chancel with inscription recording it as gift from
Dalgliesh family in thanksgiving for victory in 1918. Bronze plaques record gift
of chancel and Lady Chapel as memorials to Hoare family. Bronze panel records
gift of nave and tower by Dalgliesh family as Great War memorial. High quality glass
throughout with military insignia. 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. LISTED GRADE 2*
Easting
426140
Northing
566020
Grid Reference
NZ426140566020
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/156; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 508; 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; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) J1.02; "The Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity, Jesmond", c1939, pp 39; Rev. S.E. Pritchard, 1964, "Holy Trinity War Memorial Parish Church - The Legend of its Windows"; Shields Daily News 27th September 1922; Holy Trinity War Memorial Parish Church (leaflet); J.L. Jefferson, 1961, "First Hundred Years of Jesmond Parish Church"; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 13th May 1922, p 6; Alan Morgan, 1998, Bygone Sandyford and Cradlewell