Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The original Scrogg Inn was built by George Bolton at Scrogg House Farm. The pub on Scrogg Road was the New Scrogg Inn (or Walker New Inn, from 1875 the Scrogg Inn). In 1937 James Deuchar bought the pub and extended it with a new lounge. In 1950 an off-sales shop was added into the pub. In 1966 it was altered again. It closed after an arson attack in 1996. It is now the Walker Club. Lynn Pearson described the exterior of the Scrogg Inn as 'slightly modernist' and the interior as 'a glorious Art Deco finale to the 1940s'. A central column in the lounge bar is disguised as a palm tree. This supports a horizontal circular top light, 20m in diameter, glazed with yellow stained glass.
Site Name
Scrogg Road, Scrogg Inn
Site Type: Specific
Inn
HER Number
6223
Form of Evidence
Extant Building?
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1896; Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 43; Lynn F Pearson, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub - an architectural history, p 129
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
District
Newcastle
Easting
428970
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564640
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Low Walker
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Low Walker, St. Anthony's RC School
Site Type: Specific
Church School
HER Number
6222
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
15
DAY2
15
District
Newcastle
Easting
428980
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564660
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Low Walker
Description
A stone church in the Early English Gothic style, built in 1860 from designs by A.M. Dunn to serve a shipbuilding and coalmining community.
The exterior is little altered and has some townscape presence, but the interior has been significantly and unsympathetically altered.
This part of modern Newcastle was historically not part of Newcastle. It was called Walker, a name now used for this district within Newcastle. The Catholic mission in Walker began in 1860 in what became a densely-populated area, its people mostly employed in shipbuilding and coalmining in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The church was built by the first mission priest, Fr James Foran, and is an early work by A. M. Dunn. It was opened on 18 September 1860.
The interior has been considerably altered in the course of post-Vatican II reorderings. The church was consecrated 11 September 1981.
The church is in the Early English Gothic style, and is built of local sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings; the steeply-pitched roof is of Welsh slate. The plan consists of an aisleless nave, transepts and apsidal sanctuary. There is no tower. Attached buttresses mark the bay divisions. The windows are tall lancets, in stepped groups of three at the west end and in the transept gables. Some are now blocked. At the junction of the apse and the north transept is a small gabled structure with a round window in the steeply-pitched gable beneath the inscription ‘18 JF 60’; this refers to the date of construction and the name of the first mission priest, Fr James Foran.
The interior has been much altered, including reordering with three steps to the sanctuary and three to the tabernacle. The original Gothic font is in the south transept beside the steps; other sanctuary furniture is white marble in 1960s style. A glazed west screen forms a narthex, arranged to leave views of the stained glass, all with modern plain glazing around re-set pictorial panels from the first build. Very few mouldings are visible. The two west doors, under shouldered lintels, are the original ones. There is a suspended ceiling and all interior surfaces are covered in white Artex.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
A stone church in the Early English Gothic style, built in 1860 from designs by A.M. Dunn to serve a shipbuilding and coalmining community.
The exterior is little altered and has some townscape presence, but the interior has been significantly and unsympathetically altered.
This part of modern Newcastle was historically not part of Newcastle. It was called Walker, a name now used for this district within Newcastle. The Catholic mission in Walker began in 1860 in what became a densely-populated area, its people mostly employed in shipbuilding and coalmining in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The church was built by the first mission priest, Fr James Foran, and is an early work by A. M. Dunn. It was opened on 18 September 1860.
The interior has been considerably altered in the course of post-Vatican II reorderings. The church was consecrated 11 September 1981.
The church is in the Early English Gothic style, and is built of local sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings; the steeply-pitched roof is of Welsh slate. The plan consists of an aisleless nave, transepts and apsidal sanctuary. There is no tower. Attached buttresses mark the bay divisions. The windows are tall lancets, in stepped groups of three at the west end and in the transept gables. Some are now blocked. At the junction of the apse and the north transept is a small gabled structure with a round window in the steeply-pitched gable beneath the inscription ‘18 JF 60’; this refers to the date of construction and the name of the first mission priest, Fr James Foran.
The interior has been much altered, including reordering with three steps to the sanctuary and three to the tabernacle. The original Gothic font is in the south transept beside the steps; other sanctuary furniture is white marble in 1960s style. A glazed west screen forms a narthex, arranged to leave views of the stained glass, all with modern plain glazing around re-set pictorial panels from the first build. Very few mouldings are visible. The two west doors, under shouldered lintels, are the original ones. There is a suspended ceiling and all interior surfaces are covered in white Artex.
Site Name
Low Walker, St. Anthony of Padua, Roman Catholic Church
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1840. Rebuilt 1872. Seated 400. Out of use in 1968.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1840. Rebuilt 1872. Seated 400. Out of use in 1968.
Site Name
Low Walker, Wesleyan methodist chapel
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6220
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
ADDITINF
y
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
DAY2
19
District
Newcastle
Easting
429100
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
4
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564490
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Walker
Description
Primitive Methodist Chapel. Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1896. Seated 200. This Primitive Methodist Chapel was converted into the Vaudeville Picture Palace in October 1910. The architects were White and Stephenson, the owner T. Proctor. The picture hall seated 360 people. There was a small stage and space for a pianist. The pictures were supplemented by two variety acts. In June 1911 the new owner T.M. Miller increased the seating to 390 by adding a small balcony reached by six steps. In May 1912 William Baker (who already ran the Gaiety in Newcastle, the Coliseum in Whitley Bay and the Empire in Wheatley Hill) took over. Around 1919 he was joined by his cousin Thomas Roche who ran the Imperial at Tyne Dock. Sound came in 1931. The proscenium arch was lit by multicoloured light bulbs and had a pelmet with an embroidered crown at its centre. The Vaudeville closed on 2 August 1958.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Primitive Methodist Chapel. Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Built 1896. Seated 200. This Primitive Methodist Chapel was converted into the Vaudeville Picture Palace in October 1910. The architects were White and Stephenson, the owner T. Proctor. The picture hall seated 360 people. There was a small stage and space for a pianist. The pictures were supplemented by two variety acts. In June 1911 the new owner T.M. Miller increased the seating to 390 by adding a small balcony reached by six steps. In May 1912 William Baker (who already ran the Gaiety in Newcastle, the Coliseum in Whitley Bay and the Empire in Wheatley Hill) took over. Around 1919 he was joined by his cousin Thomas Roche who ran the Imperial at Tyne Dock. Sound came in 1931. The proscenium arch was lit by multicoloured light bulbs and had a pelmet with an embroidered crown at its centre. The Vaudeville closed on 2 August 1958.
Site Name
Church Street, methodist chapel (Vaudeville Cinema)
Site Type: Specific
Primitive Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6219
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Frank Manders, 1991, Cinemas of Newcastle, page 175; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
District
Newcastle
Easting
429110
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564370
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Walker
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Built in 1848.
Site Name
Christ Church
Site Type: Specific
Church
HER Number
6218
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
16
District
Newcastle
Easting
429110
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564250
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Walker
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Clergy House
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Dean House
Site Type: Specific
Deanery
HER Number
6217
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
DAY2
19
District
Newcastle
Easting
429270
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
4
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564220
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Walker
Description
Methodist New Connexion chapel. Built 1838. Sold to the Presbyterians in 1842. Rebuilt 1866. Methodist New Connexion again from 1888 to 1900. The congregation then moved to a new chapel on Station Road. Demolished 1967.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Methodist New Connexion chapel. Built 1838. Sold to the Presbyterians in 1842. Rebuilt 1866. Methodist New Connexion again from 1888 to 1900. The congregation then moved to a new chapel on Station Road. Demolished 1967.
Site Name
Chapel Street, Zion Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Methodist New Connexion Chapel
HER Number
6216
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
16
DAY2
24
District
Newcastle
Easting
429150
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564200
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Walker
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Hospital
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Low Walker Hospital was funded by Charles Mitchell, shipbuilder. An article in the Newcastle Daily Chronicle in 1870 described the red brick building as plain, but with a "remarkably neat exterior". It had a steeple-turret in the centre of the roof, providing ventilation into the building. It was of two storeys, with a reception, nurse's bedroom and sitting room, kitchen and offices, operating room and four-bedded accident ward on the ground floor; and two spacious wards on the first floor, each with four beds, reached by a "handsome stone staircase". There was also a convalescent ward, attendant's bedroom, store rooms and closets on the upper floor. The wards were said to be light and airy, supplied with gas and water. In the eastern enclosed yard were the washing and mangling rooms and outbuildings. At the front of the hospital there was a garden, enclosed by a dwarf wall with stone coping and iron railings. Mr John Lamlie Moffatt, of Edinburgh, was the architect.