Large house shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map 1858. Closed 1888. Demolished by 1919. Now site of a school.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Large house shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map 1858 (additional HER 8639). Closed 1888. Demolished by 1919. Now site of a school (HER 9236).
Site Name
Gloucester House, Westgate Road
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6302
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; PCA, 2010, Westgate Hill Primary School, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Assessment; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2015
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
DAY2
09
District
Newcastle
Easting
2338
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
03
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6442
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Built in 1889. Out of use circa 1978. Site now occupied by an electricity substation.
Site Name
Northcote Street, Presbyterian Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Presbyterian Chapel
HER Number
6301
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2357
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6449
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Parish church 1871 by Redmayne. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; rubble
sandstone north walls; chamfered plinth. Welsh slate roof. Nave with north porch;
paired south transepts; narrower chancel and south vestry. Double door, with
ornamental wrought iron hinges, in double-chamfered surround in gabled porch. Lancet
windows on north, triple lancets on west, with sill string; plate tracery to 2-light
south windows, geometric tracery to tall 3-light east window. Gabled belfry at north
side of west gable. South chancel hall has very tall chimney stack with offsets.
Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced scissor-truss roof.
Blind north arcade of 4 bays; 2-bay south arcade to transepts; double-chamfered
arches on round columns or half-columns; tall chamfered chancel arch with inner
arch on fluted bracket. Hood moulds to arcades and to entrances. W.W.I. memorial
chancel panelling, in Tudor style, bears names of dead of parish (252 in all).
Piscina with billet moulding above. Square font on pink marble shafts. Thick hinges
to boarded door in north porch. High-quality glass in upper lights of each window and
one south chancel memorial window. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church 1871 by Redmayne. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; rubble sandstone north walls; chamfered plinth. Welsh slate roof. Nave with north porch; paired south transepts; narrower chancel and south vestry. Double door, with
ornamental wrought iron hinges, in double-chamfered surround in gabled porch. Lancet windows on north, triple lancets on west, with sill string; plate tracery to 2-light south windows, geometric tracery to tall 3-light east window. Gabled belfry at north side of west gable. South chancel hall has very tall chimney stack with offsets. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced scissor-truss roof. Blind north arcade of 4 bays; 2-bay south arcade to transepts; double-chamfered
arches on round columns or half-columns; tall chamfered chancel arch with inner arch on fluted bracket. Hood moulds to arcades and to entrances. W.W.I. memorial chancel panelling, in Tudor style, bears names of dead of parish (252 in all).
Piscina with billet moulding above. Square font on pink marble shafts. Thick hinges to boarded door in north porch. High-quality glass in upper lights of each window and one south chancel memorial window.
Site Name
St. Philip's Close, Church of St. Philip
Site Type: Specific
Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6300
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
DAY2
09
District
Newcastle
Easting
2379
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
03
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6471
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1896. Gone by 1915.
Site Name
New Mills, Mission Church
Site Type: Specific
Mission Church
HER Number
6299
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2375
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6429
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Mayfield Street, school
Site Type: Specific
School
HER Number
6298
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
2399
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6428
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Now part of brewery site.
Site Name
Corporation Street, RC School
Site Type: Specific
Church School
HER Number
6297
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
Crossref
6854
DAY1
23
DAY2
05
District
Newcastle
Easting
2421
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6428
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map. This building began life as the offices of the Tyne Brewery, built in 1870. In 1884 John Barras & Company bought the Tyne Brewery but sold the office block, which became St. Cuthbert's RC Grammar School. The Brewery re-purchased the school in 1923 and converted it into a bottling factory.
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. This building began life as the offices of the Tyne Brewery, built in 1870. In 1884 John Barras & Company bought the Tyne Brewery but sold the office block, which became St. Cuthbert's RC Grammar School. The Brewery re-purchased the school in 1923 and converted it into a bottling factory. In more recent times the building was gutted and used as a cold store. The building was constructed of brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Recorded in 2008 ahead of demolition and redevelopment.
Site Name
St Cuthbert's RC Grammar School, Wellington Street
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
HER Number
6296
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
<< HER 6296 >> Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Limited, 1963, Memorandum on the growth and development of the Tyne Brewery, Corporation Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2008, Tyne Brewery, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Building Recording
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2015
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
CONDITION
Destroyed
DAY1
23
DAY2
25
District
Newcastle
Easting
2429
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
01
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6428
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The schools were built along the newly formed Corporation Street from the 1870s. Was listed grade II. Demolished 1987 and delisted 2017.
Former listing description:
School, now storage. Dated 1870 in vesica in left gable peak. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 6 bays and right entrance bay. Gothic style. Square-headed moulded surround to double door under panel with low relief BATH LANE SCHOOL; 5 cusped lights over and roundel in low-pitched gable peak. Shouldered surrounds to 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows of 4 central bays; bar tracery to 4-light stone mullioned-and-transomed windows in gabled end bays with vesica in left and six-foil window in right gable peak.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The schools were built along the newly formed Corporation Street from the 1870s. Was listed Grade II. Demolished 1987 and delisted 2017.
Former listing description:
School, now storage. Dated 1870 in vesica in left gable peak. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 6 bays and right entrance bay. Gothic style. Square-headed moulded surround to double door under panel with low relief BATH LANE SCHOOL; 5 cusped lights over and roundel in low-pitched gable peak. Shouldered surrounds to 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows of 4 central bays; bar tracery to 4-light stone mullioned-and-transomed windows in gabled end bays with vesica in left and six-foil window in right gable peak.
Site Name
Bath Lane Higher Grade Schools
Site Type: Specific
School
SITE_STAT
Listing Building Delisted
HER Number
6295
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2022
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2429
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6424
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
College
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The college and adjacent school (HER 6295) were built from the 1870s. By the end of the C19, the House of Recovery (HER 6293) had been subsumed into the college. Until demolition in the mid 1980s Rutherford College occupied almost the whole of the subsequent Bath Lane car park site. The car park was constructed in 1987. Rutherford College moved to Ellison Place in 1966 now the Ellison Building at Northumbria University.
Site Name
Bath Lane, Rutherford College
Site Type: Specific
Training College
HER Number
6294
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
ADDITINF
y
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
23
DAY2
07
District
Newcastle
Easting
2433
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
10
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 26 SW 228
Northing
6424
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Newcastle
Description
Fever hospital 1804. Opened for the prevention and cure of contagious fever. The public raised £1165 towards the £1505 cost of the building. Both poor and paying patients were admitted. Physicians from the Dispensary looked after the patients. Records show that the hospital was always overcrowded with patients suffering from cholera, typhoid and smallpox. The hospital closed in 1888 when Walkergate Hospital opened (HER 5390). Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. 2 storeys. Flat stone lintels to boarded doors recessed in blocked round arches. Sashes with glazing bard on first floor. Other windows blind. Subsumed into adjacent Rutherford College from the late C19. When the college was demolished in the 1980s to make way for the Bath Lane carpark, the House of Recovery was left once again in isolation. Restored in 1988 for the North of England Museum Service. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Hospital
SITEDESC
Fever hospital 1804. Opened for the prevention and cure of contagious fever and was in use as such until 1888. The public raised £1165 towards the £1505 cost of the building. Both poor and paying patients were admitted. Physicians from the Dispensary looked after the patients. Records show that the hospital was always overcrowded with patients suffering from cholera, typhoid and smallpox. The hospital closed in 1888 when Walkergate Hospital opened (HER 5390). Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. 2 storeys. Flat stone lintels to boarded doors recessed in blocked round arches. Sashes with glazing bard on first floor. Other windows blind. Subsumed into adjacent Rutherford College from the late C19. When the college was demolished in the 1980s to make way for the Bath Lane carpark, the House of Recovery was left once again in isolation. Restored in 1988 for the North of England Museum Service. Hospital. 1804 as fever hospital. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the central 3 slightly
higher and projecting. Flat stone lintels to boarded doors recessed in blocked
round arches. 3 similar arches in central bays are partly bricked up; the central
arch has internal string at door-head level. Sashes with glazing bars on first
floor and in fifth bay on second floor; other windows blind; all have flat stone
lintels. First floor sill band, second floor projecting stone sills. Gutter
cornice to 3 central bays. Hipped roof has 2 ridge chimneys and 5 small ridge
ventilators. Source: Mackenzie, History of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle 1827
p.516. Empty at time of survey {1}. Marked as 'dead house' on 1st edition OS map of 1861. Thomas Oliver (1844) recorded that the ground floor included the physician's room, storeroom, matron's room and bedroom. The east wing was the kitchen, back kitchen with the conveniences and fumigating room in the back yard. On the first floor there were 2 bed wards, 2 centre wards, a scullery and 2 water closets. There was a similar arrangement on the second floor. Recorded by Peter Ryder 2014 - few old features remained- all fireplaces are gone and all door and window carpentry renewed.
Site Name
Bath Lane, Fever Hospital (House of Recovery)
Site Type: Specific
Infectious Diseases Hospital
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6293
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 19/87; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 454; Lynn Redhead, 1996, Hospitals; North East Civic Trust, August 2004, The House of Recovery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Conservation Statement; Thomas Oliver, 1844, Historical and Descriptive Reference to the Public Buildings on the Plan of the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 175; Peter Ryder, 2014, The House of Recovery, Newcastle upon Tyne - Historic Building Recording