Cochrane Terrace, Church of St. Matthew

This church was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Parish Church c.1870. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with decorative ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Nave and south porch; chancel and south porch. Paired nook shafts to boarded door in steeply- gabled nave porch; massive west buttresses with off-sets support gabled bellcote; 2-light west window recessed under chamfered arch springing from these. 2-light windows in 3-bay nave, cusped lancets in chancel; 3-light east window above buttress; diagonal chancel buttresses. Geometric tracery and diamond-stopped drip-moulds to 2-centred-arched windows and main door; shouldered arch to chancel door.' {2}.
Paid for by Captain Henry Bell of Woolsington (£3000). Replaced a church of 1835 (shown on Ordnance Survey first edition) which accounts for the large yews in the churchyard. Interior - reredos (screen behind altar) 1882, painted panels given by the women of the new diocese for the chapel at Benwell Towers, Bishop's Place, and transferred here in 1959. LISTED GRADE 2