Tyne and Wear HER(8727): Thornleigh Street, Church of St. Hilda - Details
8727
Newcastle
Thornleigh Street, Church of St. Hilda
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Parish Church
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
This church was listed Grade II in 1954 with the following description:
'Parish church, originally daughter church of St. George, Jesmond. 1900-5 by Hicks and Charlewood. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel, north-west belfry; north vestry. Perpendicular style. Moulded 2-centred arch to double boarded door in west bay of north aisle; low octagonal belfry at right. Square-headed 5-light windows in nave aisles, 2-light in chancel. 5-light east window has 2-centred head and flowing tracery. Set-back buttresses; roll-moulded parapet and gable coping with cross finial; hipped roof to vestry. Tall central copper-covered fleche has swept eaves and slender iron cross finial. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; pointed barrel roof. 4-bay nave has alternate round and octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches on moulded capitals; 2 octagonal piers to Lady chapel. Blind west arch; shouldered arch to vestry door. Octagonal font has blind tracery and square flower bosses. War memorial triptych by F.H. Newbery A.R.C.A. showing figures of soldier, sailor, locomotive engineer and miner, with Saints Nicholas and Hilda, in cil, in north aisle.' {1}
Daughter church of St. George's. 1900-5 by Hicks & Charlewood, with attached school. Inscribed with the date 1900. Good materials - snecked sandstone, graduated Lakeland slate and Perpendicular in style. Copper-covered central fleche {2}. LISTED GRADE 2
425200
566470
NZ425200566470
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/546; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 509; Alan Morgan, 2010, Jesmond from mines to mansions, pages 88-89; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024758