Brunel Terrace, Church of St. Stephen
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
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
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/134