1935-6 by H L Hicks of Hicks & Charlewood, on land given by J R Blackett Ord of Whitfield Hall, whose ancestors lived in Fenham Hall. He also paid for the church, the plans for which were criticized. "A straightforward modern building, made from warm coloured C19 bricks, with almost no decoration inside or out. Campanile-style north-west tower has rows of long belfry openings and a gilded cross finial. It was originally pantiled, before re-roofing. The 1965 porch is not very appropriate. The long high nave, with low round arches over the altar and to the narrow aisles, is lit by high clerestory windows and has a reinforced concrete barrel vault.

1984 by Napper Collerton Partnership. "A lively community building in dark wood, red brick and copper and with tubular steel latticework to support the roof". The architects also designed Felling Pool. Described as a leisure centre without a roof. By the 1970s Elswick Park was in a poor state, as were Elswick Baths on Scotswood Road and Westgate Baths in Arthur's Hill (both built in 1886). Scotswood Baths on Armstrong Road, dating from 1933 was also reaching the end of its useful life. There was thus a £1.8 million scheme to revive the park which a new leisure pool. The building has a free form pool with four lanes for serious swimmers.

1981-2 by Ryder & Yates & Partners for Vickers' Defence Systems on the site of Armstrong's engineering works. A sophisticated shed, with tall slit windows balancing the horizontals of water and riverbank. Ideally suited to its site, and set on the floor slabs and other old surfaces of the previous factory, which provided a good hard foundation. The old factory railway lines are retained within the present floor {1}. 1981 by Ryder and Yates for Vickers Armaments. The new factory replaced a series of existing buildings scattered over several miles including the original Elswick Works of William Armstrong. Ryder and Yates used simple portal frames, with roof purlins and aluminium cladding. The building was almost half a kilometre long and had a huge roof span. A series of wide concrete strip foundations supported the portal frames, reduced the load of the building and avoided the need to dig out old machine bases and foundations of previous buildings. Vickers' original machinery was reused, placed on floating concrete rafts. Previously heavy machinery had always been solidly fixed. The building was clad in silver aluminium sheeting. The building had a yellow gutter that ended in an inverted V shape over the entrance. The offices were located on the south side with a perforated concrete screen at its entrance. Foam insulation was used. The curved eaves and oval-shaped windows lend themselves well to the corrugated cladding and created an airtight structure. Heating was via direct-fired gas heaters with no flue. Roof fans provided ventilation. Vickers was later sold to Alvis, who were taken over by British Aero Systems. The building is still in good order. The building won a Civic Trust Award in 1983. Ryder and Yates also designed a tank factory for Vickers in Leeds in 1982 and another in Gemini {2}.

Newcastle Corporation purchased the 60 acre estate in 1919 for £37,500 with the intention to use 45 acres for housing. The remainder was intended for schooling with Pendower House and its immediate grounds to be used as a Special School, and the land immediately behind Benwell Tower to be used as the site of an elementary school. This first phase was built under the Housing, Town Planning etc Act 1919 (the Addison Act) and Pendower was the first land purchase by the Corporation under this scheme
The first parts of the estate to be built were Pendower Way (initially intended to be called Pendower Lane), Fox & Hounds Lane and West Road. The Pendower Estate houses were constructed to the Tudor Walters standards and laid out in the Garden Suburb model at a density of about 12-14 houses to the acre in comparison with 20 houses or more per acre in other parts of Benwell. About 150 houses were built in all, the first tenants moved into their houses at the end of 1922.
The later part of the estate was built under the 1924 Housing (Financial Provisions) Act (the Wheatley Act), which introduced a financial subsidy for the building of council houses at a controlled rent. The early tenants were drawn from the better off working class renting privately elsewhere in the west end of the city: Benwell, Elswick & Arthurs Hill. The initial rents were set at the range of 9/3d to 12/3d net, which was well beyond poorer inhabitants of the city. By the completion of the estate in 1931, a total of 589 council houses had been constructed with the majority between 1925 and 1928.

1936-7 by W.B. Edwards. Brick and pantiles in a style which owes more to the Mediterranean than to Bede's northern Europe. A fascinating church, full of rich detail, mostly structural rather than applied. The west front is particularly pleasing - the high wide tower has a hierarchy of windows, widely spaced and small at the lowest level, then a group of three long lights with arched heads, and at the top a tripartite light under a pitched roof. Set back from this are the porches, with arches of long thin bricks framing low-relief carvings of the life of Bede over the wide sandstone surrounds of the two doors.

An impressive Byzantine revival building of the interwar period. It was designed by Stienlet & Maxwell, a significant Newcastle firm, and this is their finest church in that style. 1929 by Stienlet & Maxwell, opened October 1931 and consecrated March 22nd 1938. A successful brick-and-pantiled church of Mediterranean inspiration, but more straight-forwardly Romanesque. The church is thought to have replaced an earlier corrugated iron building of 1903 which stood on the opposite side of Armstrong Road. The parish was taken over by Father J W Milroy in 1924. In 1982 the interior was reordered by Dietz and Lyons, architects of Newcastle, with Bell & Ridley of Durham the main contractors. This work included the infilling of the sanctuary arch with a stained glass screen designed by L C Evetts, formed over the (retained) communion rails (photo bottom left); a separate chapel was created in the former sanctuary area. The marble altar was re-sited beneath the dome by Morris Marble works, who also designed the other liturgical furnishings, re-using much of the marble (also visible in photo bottom left). Other alterations at this time included the introduction of a suspended ceiling in the nave, the introduction of an organ in the south transept (from St Mary’s College, Fenham), the relocation of the font to the Sacred Heart chapel and the creation at the west end of a narthex area and repository. The total cost of these works was about £70,000; the church was reopened and the new altar dedicated by Bishop Lindsay on 25 May 1982. Recorded in 2014 by DPP UK Ltd.

Tower flats of 1967 by Douglas Wise & Partners with the City Architect. Uncluttered white surfaces with the contrast of a black central staircase strip at the centre of the two shorter sides {1}. Jesmond Vale House is a landmark in its area and is located in a peaceful semi-rural setting. It is a 28 storey, flat roofed block of flats, built by Douglas Wise and Partners and is the sister building to Shieldfield House. The east and west sides are identical apart from the recessed floor entrance in the ground floor of the west front. Each floor has six groups of two square windows, separated by concrete projections. The north and south elevations appear similar due to central brick sections which contrast with the concrete. On the north side this central section is a stairway and there is an outshoot at the ground floor, and on the south each floor of the brick section contains two groups of two windows, separated by concrete projections. A ramp leads to an Art Deco style glass entrance in the third floor of the north side.

Sheltered housing scheme of 1986 by George Oldham, City Architect. Pleasantly informal, one and two storeyed buildings of soft-coloured bricks with wood balconies and pitched roofs set in attractive gardens.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896.