Byker, Gordon Road, Kingsland Church

HER Number:
14545

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Byker, Gordon Road, Kingsland Church

Place:
Byker

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Presbyterian Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Replaced an 1894 mission room at 198 Raby Street. Built in 1897 and in use until around 1985. Now stands empty. Gothic style, stone, with twin-portalled entrance front facing west, flanked by pinnacles, and triple lancet in east end.

Easting:
2703

Northing:
6440

Grid Reference:
NZ27036440

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey January/February 2012; North East Civic Trust, 2005, A Byker Future - The Conservation Plan for The Byker Redevelopment