Scotswood Road, Church of St. George
Scotswood Road, Church of St. George
HER Number
9038
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Scotswood Road, Church of St. George
Place
Lemington
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Roman Catholic Church
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
R.C. parish church. l868-69 by A.M. Dunn; at the expense of Richard Lamb of West
Denton. Flemish bond white brick with polychrome dressings; rear (north) red brick;
Welsh slate roof. Western 3-sided apse to chancel; south tower; 5-bay nave with
south porch. Shouldered lintel to blocked ritual west door in porch: Shouldered
lintel to inserted west door with broach-stopped rebate to surround. Nook shafts
to paired west lancets; cinquefoil above has drip mould with ball-flower stops.
Carved gables to 2 west buttresses. 2-centred-arched windows in buttressed nave
with sill string and continuous impost band: Lombard frieze above and around apse;
2-stage tower, blind below, has upper wide 2-centred-arched belfry openings under
Lombard frieze with corner gargoyles, and steeply-pitched hipped roof with iron
ridge finial. LISTED GRADE 2
Denton. Flemish bond white brick with polychrome dressings; rear (north) red brick;
Welsh slate roof. Western 3-sided apse to chancel; south tower; 5-bay nave with
south porch. Shouldered lintel to blocked ritual west door in porch: Shouldered
lintel to inserted west door with broach-stopped rebate to surround. Nook shafts
to paired west lancets; cinquefoil above has drip mould with ball-flower stops.
Carved gables to 2 west buttresses. 2-centred-arched windows in buttressed nave
with sill string and continuous impost band: Lombard frieze above and around apse;
2-stage tower, blind below, has upper wide 2-centred-arched belfry openings under
Lombard frieze with corner gargoyles, and steeply-pitched hipped roof with iron
ridge finial. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
418930
Northing
564410
Grid Reference
NZ418930564410
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 10/43; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Bells-Close-Newcastle-upon-Tyne-St-George [accessed 7th March 2016]