One of Dunn, Hansom & Dunn’s finest compositions, a large structure which once presided over the terraces serving Armstrong’s Elswick Works, but whose setting is now sadly blighted. The high crossing is crowned by an octagonal lantern recalling Ely Cathedral.
R.C. parish church. 1889-91 by Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Snecked sandstone with ashlar-coped rock;faced plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge on transepts. Presbytery of rock-faced sandstone in irregular courses; ashlar dressings and quoins, and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Church : cruciform with aisled nave, north porch and crossing tower. One-bay link from south transept to presbytery.
Decorated style. West double door in deeply-moulded 2-centred arch under gabled drip mould; north door in second-bay porch has nook shafts, head-stopped drip mould and ball flower ornament; plainer south door in west bay; all doors boarded with elaborate hinges. Paired aisle windows, 2-light windows in panelled clerestory and in 3-sided west apse to north aisle; rectilinear tracery to larger transept, east and west windows. Octagonal tower has raised tracery to 2-light windows. Gargoyles and coped parapets to aisles; gargoyles, pierced battlements and pinnacles to tower. Buttresses, some gabled. Cross finials to steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: ashlar, with boarded barrel roofs. 5-bay arcades have alternately round and octagonal piers. 4 high crossing arches with central shafts to transepts. Angel corbels and much carved ornament. Painted, panelled chancel ceiling; tierceron-ribbed boarded ceiling in tower. High-quality alabaster reredos with statues in riches, and matching communion rail. Glass: east window by Westlake of London, west and others by Atkinson of Newcastle.
Presbytery: 3 storeys, 2 bays. Gabled front has 5-panelled door with overlight and side lights at right; tripartite sash above. At left, a 2-storey canted bay; paired sashes on second floor; all windows stone-mullioned in alternate-block surrounds with flat stone lintels and sloping sills; flower-stopped drip moulds. Louvred vent in gable peak. Gable coping with fleur-de-lis finial and moulded kneelers.
When the church was built, it faced Elswick Park to the north, with Elswick Hall at its heart; by 1914 streets of terraced houses lay to the east, west and south. In the 1960s the crowded, steep, terraces were demolished and tower blocks and a shopping centre were built. Now most of those have been demolished and the church presides over a strangely empty landscape.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Now a housing office. Known locally as the Stephenson building. Sir W H Stephenson (1836-1918) presented the building to the City in 1896 as its first branch library. It became West End Leisure and Learning in 1984. Described in 1895 as having a refreshment room, committee room, ladies reading room, general reading room and lavatory on the ground floor. The principal entrance into the entrance hall was to the west, from which there was a staircase to the upper floor where the main hall (library and meetings) was located. The external walls were faced with red Leicestershire bricks, with dressings of stone and pink terracotta. The building was roofed with red tiles. The internal woodwork was stained canary wood. The roof of the main hall was of hammer-beam construction in pitch pine and the ceiling panelled with moulded ribs. The staircase had a fine stained glass window. The west entrance is carried up into a tower and in the parapet was a stone shield with the arms of Alderman Stephenson. The building cost around £4000. Stephenson also helped found the Methodist Church to the east of the library.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1875. A substantial Gothic church (seated 885) with a corner tower and attached school rooms (HER 10391) to the rear. Demolished circa 1970. Site now occupied by a mosque.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Congregation from John Knox, Clayton Street West. Built 1896 for the congregation from Clayton Street West, who were seeking larger premises. The church was in use until 1953, it later became a Boys Brigade Centre, then Factory Project House. Demolished 1983. A 1900 photograph of the church shows it terraced into the slope of the ground so that it is below the level of Elswick Road.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.

Parish church. 1854 by Benjamin Green. Sandstone ashlar with roll-moulded plinth. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aisled nave and chancel; south porch. 2-centred arch with nook shafts and head-stopped drip mould to double door with elaborate hinges. Small polygonal south-west turret. Some plate tracery but mostly lancets. Large buttress at west end. Interior - painted plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado; arch-braced roof. Glass includes west window of north aisle by Wailes and Strang 1903. Other glass removed from nearby church. West window by Morris & Co. 1911. West wall has marble memorial to Marcus Allen, a former vicar, died 1843, with portrait relief; and low-relief portrait on pillar, in marble, with weeping woman, by R.G. Davies in classical style, commemorating Amos Spoor died 1842 and other members of his family. Formally closed in 2006. Taken over by the Life Transformation Ministry in 2009.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Now the site of Westgate Community College.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. A watching brief by PCA in 2009 noted the remains of a stone lined drainage culvert and a yard all likely to be related to Low Dean House without being part of the stucture.