Tyne and Wear HER(8250): Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Church of St. Helen - Details
8250
Gateshead
Low Fell, Bellevue Bank, Church of St. Helen
Low Fell
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Parish Church to new Parish formed out of St John's. 1876 by John Wardle. Built
at a cost of £13,000, the gift of Edward Joicey of Whinney House, Durham Road (qv).
Large, solid Early English style. Coursed, rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings.
Graduated lakeland slate roof. Cruciform with short apsidal chancel having cross-
gabled vestry, large transepts and south-west tower with stone broach spire; north-
west balancing porch. Stepped buttresses, lancets single and grouped, tower doorway
with mouldings and nook-shafts.
Interior of snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Arch braced timber roof on carved
corbels. Carved stone reredos, pulpit and font. Interesting glass:
1. Chancel, 5 lancets, style of Morris & Co. Miracles. Transfiguration,
Sermon on Mount.
2. N & S transepts, evangelists and prophets, possibly Kempe.
3. Nave, north side, Burne-Jones designs, saints.
One window in south transept signed G J Baguley, Newcastle, 1902. Brass plate to
Edward Joicey, the donor. LISTED GRADE 2*
2555
6031
NZ25556031
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/53; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Saltwell Conservation Area, p 65; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 29