Backworth, Station Road, St Edmund's RC Church

HER Number:
17433

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth, Station Road, St Edmund's RC Church

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ37NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Roman Catholic Church

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Church 1954, built along with the slightly earlier presbytery) from designs by Robert Burke. A modest building in a sub-Romanesque basilican style, of red brick laid in English garden wall bond, with artificial stone dressings; all windows have projecting surrounds. The tiled roof has a raised west section with cross finial over the porch, and is hipped over the sanctuary. Three-light windows and clerestory lights in the five-bay nave, one-bay chancel and polygonal apse; lower aisles with pent roofs and gabled end projections. Orientation is conventional. The gabled west entrance front has a gabled projecting centre with recessed round-arched door in a gabled surround. The interior has square columns supporting the clerestory, and above that, a plain strip of ceiling on paired brackets and the main ceiling gently raised. The concealed roof trusses are of steel. There is one full-width step at the sanctuary, then an apron projection with two steps to the altar and one to the tabernacle stand. The sanctuary furniture is all of good quality simple timber with tracery to the polygonal pulpit and to the altar rails, now set back against the wall.

Easting:
3082

Northing:
7125

Grid Reference:
NZ30827125

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Backworth-Our-Lady-and-St-Edmund