Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen

HER Number:
9166

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Parish church, declared redundant lst January 1984. 1868 by Johnson. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with north-west tower and low west porch; north transept; chancel with north aisle. Decorated style. 3-stage tower over aisle has triple belfry openings, corbel table, and battlements with corner flying buttresses to tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes. West porch has shafts and label strings to square-headed central window and flanking doors; high aisle windows, boarded up in north and west and with bar tracery on south; larger east window also boarded up. Steeply-pitched roofs to nave and aisles. Interior: stripped except for alabaster memorials in memory of members of the Cruddas family and mosaic after Holman Hunt "Light of the World" in memory of Rev. Joseph Duncan, vicar 1901-11. Glass removed. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
423180

Northing:
563220

Grid Reference:
NZ423180563220

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/134