Lemington, Scotswood Road, Church of Holy Saviour

HER Number:
9037

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Lemington, Scotswood Road, Church of Holy Saviour

Place:
Lemington

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Parish church. 1836-37; by Benjamin Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aligned north-south; nave with ritual north porch and south vestry and lower, set-back sanctuary. Early English style. High pointed arch to boarded door in steeply- gabled porch; 3-light east window, lancets in sanctuary and east nave, 2-light windows in nave; wide chamfered buttress, dividing west lancets, beneath bell- cote. Low-pitched roof. Interior: plaster, sloping sills to windows; queen-post roof with pendants. Blind high pointed west arch; high pointed moulded arches to doors; moulded arch to sanctuary, one step above chancel, which is paved with Caithness flags as Second World War memorial. Historical note: said to be aligned north-south to avoid disused pit shaft on east. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
1883

Northing:
6447

Grid Reference:
NZ18836447

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 10/41