Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map. By the second edition it is much larger and is called St. Joseph's Home for the Aged.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. By the second edition it is much larger and is called St. Joseph's Home for the Aged.
Site Name
Dean House, Westmorland Road
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6333
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition map, 1850
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
24
District
Newcastle
Easting
2294
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6349
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Westmorland Road, Free United Methodist Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6332
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
24
DAY2
28
District
Newcastle
Easting
2285
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
02
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6345
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map. Demolished.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1887. Out of use by 1962. Seated 280. Brick, gable front with twin portal, rose window, bellcote. Demolished.
Site Name
Strickland Street, Primitive Methodist Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Primitive Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6331
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1896; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey, January/February 2012
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
DAY2
29
District
Newcastle
Easting
2278
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
02
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6324
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Methodist New Connexion. A movement founded in 1791 when Alexander Kilham led the first group to split from the Methodists. Dated 1853. Brick front to street, central doorway flanked by windows, all round-arched with alternating ashlar surrounds, hipped roof. Seated 250. Demolished.
Site Name
Scotswood Road, Ebenezer Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Methodist New Connexion Chapel
HER Number
6330
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2275
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6326
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Scotswood Road, Elswick Works Schools (girls)
Site Type: Specific
School
HER Number
6329
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2271
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6326
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Scotswood Road, Elswick Works Schools (infants)
Site Type: Specific
Infant School
HER Number
6328
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2273
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6323
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Scotswood Road, Elswick Works Schools (boys)
Site Type: Specific
School
HER Number
6327
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2312
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6316
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Baths
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Elswick Baths and Public Wash Houses
Site Type: Specific
Baths
HER Number
6325
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear, charting the heritage of people at play, p 168
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
23
DAY2
29
District
Newcastle
Easting
2314
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
03
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6351
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Large structure which once presided over the terraces serving Armstrong’s Elswick Works, but whose setting is now sadly blighted. The high crossing is crowned by an octagonal lantern recalling Ely Cathedral. Roman Catholic parish church. 1889-91 by Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Snecked sandstone with ashlar-coped rock; faced plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge on transepts. Presbytery of rock-faced sandstone in irregular courses; ashlar dressings and quoins, and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Heritage At Risk 2015: Condition: Poor, Priority: D - Slow decay; solution agreed but not yet implemented. There is some water ingress, particularly around the base of the crossing tower and to the north aisle. This is due, in part, to the difficulty in gaining access for maintenance. The slated roof covering to the south aisle is also in poor condition. Funding has been obtained from the Roof Repair Fund to enable a phase of repairs to be undertaken. The attached presbytery is also at risk Priority C. The gutters are choked with vegetation, there is some water ingress, and internal cracks adjacent to the end gable wall which could indicate structural movement. Many of the external building elements are deteriorating and in need of a comprehensive programme of repairs.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
One of Dunn, Hansom & Dunn’s finest compositions, a large structure which once presided over the terraces serving Armstrong’s Elswick Works, but whose setting is now sadly blighted. The high crossing is crowned by an octagonal lantern recalling Ely Cathedral.
R.C. parish church. 1889-91 by Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Snecked sandstone with ashlar-coped rock;faced plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge on transepts. Presbytery of rock-faced sandstone in irregular courses; ashlar dressings and quoins, and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Church : cruciform with aisled nave, north porch and crossing tower. One-bay link from south transept to presbytery.
Decorated style. West double door in deeply-moulded 2-centred arch under gabled drip mould; north door in second-bay porch has nook shafts, head-stopped drip mould and ball flower ornament; plainer south door in west bay; all doors boarded with elaborate hinges. Paired aisle windows, 2-light windows in panelled clerestory and in 3-sided west apse to north aisle; rectilinear tracery to larger transept, east and west windows. Octagonal tower has raised tracery to 2-light windows. Gargoyles and coped parapets to aisles; gargoyles, pierced battlements and pinnacles to tower. Buttresses, some gabled. Cross finials to steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: ashlar, with boarded barrel roofs. 5-bay arcades have alternately round and octagonal piers. 4 high crossing arches with central shafts to transepts. Angel corbels and much carved ornament. Painted, panelled chancel ceiling; tierceron-ribbed boarded ceiling in tower. High-quality alabaster reredos with statues in riches, and matching communion rail. Glass: east window by Westlake of London, west and others by Atkinson of Newcastle.
Presbytery: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Gabled front has 5-panelled door with overlight and side lights at right; tripartite sash above. At left, a 2-storey canted bay; paired sashes on second floor; all windows stone-mullioned in alternate-block surrounds with flat stone lintels and sloping sills; flower-stopped drip moulds. Louvred vent in gable peak. Gable coping with fleur-de-lis finial and moulded kneelers.
When the church was built, it faced Elswick Park to the north, with Elswick Hall at its heart; by 1914 streets of terraced houses lay to the east, west and south. In the 1960s the crowded, steep, terraces were demolished and tower blocks and a shopping centre were built. Now most of those have been demolished and the church presides over a strangely empty landscape.
Site Name
Westmorland Road, Church of St. Michael
Site Type: Specific
Roman Catholic Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II*
HER Number
6324
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/606; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Newcastle-upon-Tyne-St-Michael