English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
DAY2
31
District
Newcastle
Easting
423050
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
12
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564810
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The Victorian church of St Augustine of Hippo was consecrated in 1892. It is a fine sandstone building of two storeys and also has a tower. A roof from the ground floor aisles leads up to a row of stained glass windows on the second storey. The tower rises to a tall spire which is surrounded by four smaller spires. The tower is decorated with blind arcading and four large pointed arches each containing two lancet windows. LOCAL LIST
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The Victorian church of St Augustine of Hippo was consecrated in 1892. It is a fine sandstone building of two storeys and also has a tower. A roof from the ground floor aisles leads up to a row of stained glass windows on the second storey. The tower rises to a tall spire which is surrounded by four smaller spires. The tower is decorated with blind arcading and four large pointed arches each containing two lancet windows.
Site Name
Brighton Grove, Church of St. Augustine of Hippo
Site Type: Specific
Church
SITE_STAT
Local List
HER Number
6345
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2007
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
23
DAY2
11
District
Newcastle
Easting
422720
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
12
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564520
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map as Elswick Grange. House, now part of Newcastle General Hospital. Early to mid 19th century. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Basement and 2 storeys. 4 steps up to central part-glazed 6-panelled door in Tuscan porch; plain sashes in architraves have cornices on ground floor and projecting sills on first floor. Giant end pilasters with incised panel. Low-pitched hipped roof has 2 corniced ridge chimneys. Flat-coped dwarf walls steps to porch. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map as Elswick Grange. House, now part of Newcastle General Hospital. Early to mid C19. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Basement and 2 storeys. 4 steps up to central part-glazed 6-panelled door in Tuscan porch; plain sashes in architraves have cornices on ground floor and projecting sills on first floor. Giant end pilasters with incised panel. Low-pitched hipped roof has 2 corniced ridge chimneys. Flat-coped dwarf walls steps to porch. CgMs report (2010) questions whether this building was actually part of Elswick Grange. They suggest a date c.1900 for the extant building.
Site Name
Westgate Road, Young People's Unit
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6344
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; CgMs Consulting, 2010, The campus for ageing and vitality and Tesco food store, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Statement
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2014
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422930
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564570
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Hospital
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Westgate Road, Lunatic Asylum
Site Type: Specific
Psychiatric Hospital
HER Number
6343
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; CgMs Consulting, 2010, The campus for ageing and vitality and Tesco food store, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Statement
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
Crossref
9951
DAY1
23
DAY2
01
District
Newcastle
Easting
422920
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564510
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Fenham
Description
Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Union formally came into existence on 26 September 1836. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Governors, 34 in number, representing its 11 constituent parishes and townships. The average annual poor-rate expenditure for 1834-1856 had been £15,049 or 5s 6d per head of population. In 1839 the Board of Governors started buying land to accommodate a new workhouse for the City, which would replace the four parish Poor Law Houses (HER 6870, 11340, 16405, 16406) in Newcastle. Part of this is shown on Christie's map of 1870. By 1844 the first building, the administration block, had been built. The workhouse buildings were built in the south-east corner of the site at the junction of Westgate Road and Brighton Grove. They included a dining hall, laundry, bakehouse, workshops, school, sick wards, lying-in ward and imbecile's ward. Men were housed in the western side of the workhouse, women in the east. In 1868 work started on a new hospital on the west side of the site. A foundation stone was laid on 9th December by Mr Milvain, vice-chairman of the Board of Guardians. The building cost £16,302. It was opened on 7th December 1870 by the Board's chairman, Thomas Ridley. The hospital was two storeys high and was arranged in a U-shape enclosing a quadrangle of lawn. There were eight wards and three semi-basement wards on the north and east sides where the slope of the land made the foundations lower. The building was separated into men on the west and women on the east. A separate children's block was erected between the workhouse and the 1868 hospital. Boys had a school, dayroom, playground and dormitories in the northern half of the building, girls were in the south. There was a swimming bath north of the school. In 1882 the small entrance lodge was replaced by a three storey building with central archway. The lodge contained waiting rooms and receiving wards on the ground floor, a three roomed residence above and store rooms on the top floor. In 1902 a separate itch and venereal ward was erected west of the workhouse. In 1902 the children were moved to the Union's new cottage homes at Ponteland. The building was then used for the workhouse's aged and infirm inmates. The dining room was converted into a chapel. The first vagrants' ward was at the west of the site, north-west of the hospital. It later became an isolation ward. More vagrants' wards were added along the road to St. Nicholas Cemetery. In 1914 the Union was reconstituted as Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Parish. During the First World War, the military took over the workhouse buildings for the treatment of venereal diseases in soldiers. From 1921 the hospital was run separately from the workhouse and became known as the Wingrove Hospital. In 1930 after the council took over the site, it was renamed Newcastle General Hospital. The Public Assistance facilities were at that time based in the workhouse part of the site, and this became known as Elswick Grange Institution. In 1939 the western part of the entrance building and the archway were taken down in case of bombing. In 1948 the whole site was brought together still under the name Newcastle General Hospital.
The former workhouse buildings were recorded in 2011 in advance of demolition. A small portion of wall survives as a boundary towards the south-eastern corner of the site on the west side of Brighton Grove (2023).
SITEASS
The original workhouse buildings survive as Newcastle General Hospital, but the late nineteenth century extension has been demolished to make way for a car park. The oldest workhouse building - the administration and kitchen block, dating to the 1840s, survives. A number of stone buildings to the rear survive (the workhouse bakery, male and female blocks and workshops). The administration block is built of sandstone ashlar and has three floors and a basement. A fine central entrance with triple arched doorway and fanlights. The first and second floor window openings have triangular pediments over them. Stone balustrade at eaves. Slate roof and ceramic finials. The bakehouse and workshops to the rear are simple stone single storey buildings with plain window openings, stone lintel above and sill below. The grand gatehouse to the hospital, built after 1882 has been demolished.
Site Type: Broad
Workhouse
SITEDESC
Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Union formally came into existence on 26 September 1836. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Governors, 34 in number, representing its 11 constituent parishes and townships. The average annual poor-rate expenditure for 1834-1856 had been £15,049 or 5s 6d per head of population. In 1839 the Board of Governors started buying land to accommodate a new workhouse for the City, which would replace the four parish Poor Law Houses (HER 6870, 11340, 16405, 16406) in Newcastle. Part of this is shown on Christie's map of 1870. By 1844 the first building, the administration block, had been built. The workhouse buildings were built in the south-east corner of the site at the junction of Westgate Road and Brighton Grove. They included a dining hall, laundry, bakehouse, workshops, school, sick wards, lying-in ward and imbecile's ward. Men were housed in the western side of the workhouse, women in the east. In 1868 work started on a new hospital on the west side of the site. A foundation stone was laid on 9th December by Mr Milvain, vice-chairman of the Board of Guardians. The building cost £16,302. It was opened on 7th December 1870 by the Board's chairman, Thomas Ridley. The hospital was two storeys high and was arranged in a U-shape enclosing a quadrangle of lawn. There were eight wards and three semi-basement wards on the north and east sides where the slope of the land made the foundations lower. The building was separated into men on the west and women on the east. A separate children's block was erected between the workhouse and the 1868 hospital. Boys had a school, dayroom, playground and dormitories in the northern half of the building, girls were in the south. There was a swimming bath north of the school. In 1882 the small entrance lodge was replaced by a three storey building with central archway. The lodge contained waiting rooms and receiving wards on the ground floor, a three roomed residence above and store rooms on the top floor. In 1902 a separate itch and venereal ward was erected west of the workhouse. In 1902 the children were moved to the Union's new cottage homes at Ponteland. The building was then used for the workhouse's aged and infirm inmates. The dining room was converted into a chapel. The first vagrants' ward was at the west of the site, north-west of the hospital. It later became an isolation ward. More vagrants' wards were added along the road to St. Nicholas Cemetery. In 1914 the Union was reconstituted as Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Parish. During the First World War, the military took over the workhouse buildings for the treatment of venereal diseases in soldiers. From 1921 the hospital was run separately from the workhouse and became known as the Wingrove Hospital. In 1930 after the council took over the site, it was renamed Newcastle General Hospital. The Public Assistance facilities were at that time based in the workhouse part of the site, and this became known as Elswick Grange Institution. In 1939 the western part of the entrance building and the archway were taken down in case of bombing. In 1948 the whole site was brought together still under the name Newcastle General Hospital.
The former workhouse buildings were recorded in 2011 in advance of demolition. A small portion of wall survives as a boundary towards the south-eastern corner of the site on the west side of Brighton Grove (2023).
Site Name
Westgate Road, Union Workhouse (General Hospital)
Site Type: Specific
Workhouse
HER Number
6342
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Thomas Oliver, 1844, Historical and Descriptive Reference to the Public Buildings on the Plan of the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead; George Hurrell and George P Harlan, 1966, The History of Newcastle General Hospital; various records in Tyne and Wear Archives including apprenticeship indentures 1808-1927, births register 1840-1923, register of lunatics 1865-1909, children's emigration papers 1922-29, register of infants received for reward 1902-36; Peter Higginbotham, 2014, The Workhouse, the story of an institution, www.workhouses.org.uk/NewcastleUponTyne/; CgMs Consulting, 2010, The campus for ageing and vitality and Tesco food store, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Statement; Heaton History Group, 2015, www.heatonhistorygroup.org/2015/04/17/newcastles-war-hospitals
SURVIVAL
60-79%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2024
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
423050
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564450
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
A tiny church of England is shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. A much bigger church (named as a chapel) is shown on second edition and this still survives.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
A tiny church of England is shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. A much bigger church (named as a Centenary Chapel) is shown on second edition and this still survives.
Site Name
Dilston Road, Elswick Church of England
Site Type: Specific
Church
HER Number
6341
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422720
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564290
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Grainger Park Road, Anster Villa
Site Type: Specific
Villa
HER Number
6340
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422700
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564230
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Hillfield, Grainger Park Road
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6339
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422690
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564190
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Fairfield Lodge, Grainger Park Road
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6338
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422410
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563880
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map as West Farm. Shown on second edition as Wansbeck Home Female Penitentiary. Some of the buildings still survive next to St John's Cemetery.
Site Type: Broad
Farm
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map as West Farm. Shown on second edition as Wansbeck Home Female Penitentiary. Some of the buildings still survive next to St John's Cemetery.
Site Name
West Farm, Elswick Road
Site Type: Specific
Farm
HER Number
6337
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
422740
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563820
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Montague Cottage, Elswick Road
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6336
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004