Tyne and Wear HER(9038): Scotswood Road, Church of St. George - Details
9038
Newcastle
Scotswood Road, Church of St. George
Lemington
NZ16SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Roman Catholic Church
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
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
418930
564410
NZ418930564410
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]