Includes No. 30a Nun Street. Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably
by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4
storeys and attics. 3:15:3 bays, 21 in all. Ground floor mid C20 shops. Upper
floors have sashes, some with glazing bars; plain reveals to those in centre 15
bays; slightly projecting 3 bays at either end have architraves to windows, and
cornices to those on first floor. Paired brackets to moulded sills of all second-
floor windows. Second-floor-level band to 15-bay section. Second-floor entablature-
, breaking forward over end bays, with prominent cornice. Top cornice; block-
ing course to 3-bay end sections. Inserted mansard, to 12 bays at right of 15-bay
section, has 12 square-headed dormers. Low-pitched hipped roof over other bays. In 2013 No. 77 is Greggs, No. 79 was Thomas Cook, Nos. 81-83 is Millets, Nos. 85-93 is McDonalds.

Shops, offices and Freemasons Hall. Circa 1869; probably by Gibson Kyle. Sand-stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. Venetian Gothic style. 3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Central renewed door and overlight under shouldered lintel on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Bracketed cast iron balcony above. C20 shops; ground-floor cornice. Arcaded first floor has paired round-headed windows except for central window of 3 lights. Top floor has gable over 3 left bays with tall, paired 2-light windows under roundel with carved ornament; crocketed gable moulding on curved kneelers has clove finial. Bays to right have nook shafts to alternately cusped and segmental-headed windows, that over entrance projecting slightly. Corbel table above these bays supports balustrade and gabled dormers in alternate bays; moulded kneelers and clove finials. Ashlar chimneys.
In 2013 No. 53 is Mark Toney's Café, No. 55 is Marie Curie's Charity Shop, No. 59 is Forbidden Planet, No. 61 is Cancer Research's shop, office's above. Above No 53 was a Freemasons Hall. This opened in 1870 for he Lodge de Loraine no 541. Later it became the meeting place for other local masonic lodges and the HQ of the Northumberland province of the freemasons. The masons moved out in 1976. The interior of the hall has since been partitioned for office accommodation. The exterior carries the insignia of English freemasonry and its motto.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890.

This row of buildings was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Shops and offices. Late C19. Brick with ashlar ground floor and dressings; Welsh slate roof with corner copper turret. 4 storeys and attic; corner bay and 9 bays. Rusticated pilasters frame shops. Left corner bank entrance of double panelled door and overlight flanked by columns supporting round arch; office door in arched entrance in bay no. 7; blocked door in third bay. Full-height oriels over entrances, that at corner round; other windows paired sashes in architraves. Ground floor frieze and cornice; top cornice; consoles flank high shaped gables, with ball finials on alternate pediments, paired over first 2 bays and containing attic windows over oriels; similar gable on right end bay. 4 alternatively- pedimented dormers over other bays. Part of town wall (q.v.) abuts on rear.'

Canopied tomb. Circa 1842; signed R. DAVIES S NEWCASTLE. Memorial to Keenleyside
children, died 1841, 1841 and 1842, aged one, 12 and lO, and to other members of
the Keenleyside family including Thomas W. died 1867. Sandstone ashlar. Stepped
base to effigy of baby on couch under canopy of 4 slender octagonal piers, Tudor
arches, and central pendant. Historical note: 1841 and 1842 were years of cholera
epidemics.

Lodge, gateway, walls and gates. 1836 by John Dobson for Newcastle General
Cemetery Company. Sandstone ashlar; roof of small graduated slates. Classical
style (Spence and Odower say Greek Revival). One storey, one bay. Central blocked tripartite window under pedimented
gable on four pilasters to Gateway has 2-stage towers with raised stone surrounds
to square-headed pedestrian entrances under cornice and chamfered coping.
Pediment shaped upper sections have antefixae and acroterion. High, flat coped
walls enclose area in front and break forward to square piers with sloped coping.
Cast iron vehicle and pedestrian gates have spear-finialled standards and dog-
bars and acanthus ornament to principals. Repaired and brought back into use as meeting space.

Terrace of 5 houses. Circa 1842. English bond brick with ashlar basement and
dressings; slate-hung left return; rendered right return; Welsh slate roof.
Basement and 3 storeys; 3 bays each. 8-panelled doors and overlights in
architraves at right of No. 56 and paired between other houses. Sash windows,
with glazing bars to No. 64, with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills.

Terrace of 12 houses. Circa 1852. English garden wall bond brick with painted
ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys; 3 bays each. 8-
panelled doors with overlights in architraves at right of each house. Stone-
mullioned canted bays at left ground floor; 3 plain sashes on upper floors, with
wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Eaves gutter cornice. Low-pitched
roof has ashlar-corniced brick chimneys; inserted dormer to No. 46. Iron
railings to canted bay of No. 46 have Gothic-style arcading and finials. For a few years this terrace was known as Carlton Terrace like the Dobson-designed terrace opposite (HER 8813), but no evidence of Dobson's involvement in designing this terrace is known, despite the blue plaque on it.

2 chapels. 1856 by Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar turrets and
dressings; Welsh slate roofs. T-plan with additional porch on side away from
centre of cemetery, and corner turret on innermost side at south end. Aligned
north-south. Decorated style. Double doors, with elaborate hinges,on inner fronts
have nook shafts and head-stopped dripmoulds; similar surround to plainer door
in outward-facing porch; windows of 3 lights facing gateway, 2 lights on other
fronts, have similar dripmoulds. Lancets to corner turrets with gabled belfry
under octagonal spirelets. Buttresses. Steeply-pitched roofs with cross finials. West Chapel was the Episcopal Chapel, east chapel was the Dissenter's Chapel. The east chapel is still open for services and private prayers as the Shrine Chapel of Our Lady of Jesmond.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890. On the Rainton Burn.