Gordon Road, Kingsland Church

HER Number

14545

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Gordon Road, Kingsland Church

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Presbyterian Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Replaced an 1894 mission room at 198 Raby Street. Built in 1897 and in use until around 1985. Now stands empty. Gothic style, stone, with twin-portalled entrance front facing west, flanked by pinnacles, and triple lancet in east end.

Easting

427030

Northing

564400

Grid Reference

NZ427030564400

Sources

Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey January/February 2012; North East Civic Trust, 2005, A Byker Future - The Conservation Plan for The Byker Redevelopment