Elswick, Westmorland Road, Church of St. Michael

HER Number:
6324

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick, Westmorland Road, Church of St. Michael

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Roman Catholic Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Large structure which once presided over the terraces serving Armstrong’s Elswick Works, but whose setting is now sadly blighted. The high crossing is crowned by an octagonal lantern recalling Ely Cathedral. Roman Catholic parish church. 1889-91 by Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Snecked sandstone with ashlar-coped rock; faced plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge on transepts. Presbytery of rock-faced sandstone in irregular courses; ashlar dressings and quoins, and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2314

Northing:
6351

Grid Reference:
NZ23146351

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/606; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Newcastle-upon-Tyne-St-Michael