Newcastle, Claremont Road, Church of St. Luke

HER Number:
9152

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Claremont Road, Church of St. Luke

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

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. Dated 1886; completed 1890. By Oliver and Leeson. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Short nave with south porch; paired transepts; chancel with north vestry and south apsed chapel. C13 style. Gabled porch has double panelled door, and overlight with cusps, in deep chamfered surround with moulded head. Plate tracery to 3-light windows; 2-light traceried windows in chapel and vestry; 5-light east window with sill and drip strings. Buttress. Steeply pitched roofs, rounded over chapel; cross finial to chancel; west belfry with high pyramidal roof. 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:
2413

Northing:
6551

Grid Reference:
NZ24136551

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/164 and 13/164; 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.