Tynemouth, Cross Way, Church of Holy Saviour

HER Number:
7316

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Cross Way, Church of Holy Saviour

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Church

Site Type: Specific:
Parish Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Parish Church. 1839-41 by John and Benjamin Green for Duke of Northumberland; chancel 1884; twentieth century west porch. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, dressings and buttresses; snecked sandstone vestry; ashlar west porch. Welsh slate roof. West tower, nave, chancel with north vestry and porch, south organ chamber now Lady Chapel. Perpenicular style. Truncated tower has one-storey porch, slit windows, battlemented parapet. Interior - plastered above moulded plaster dado. Gothic traceried hammer-beam roof; low-pitched king-post roof to chancel. Stencilled decoration on nave frieze. Panelled reredos and chancel fittings by W.S. Hicks. Glass by Powell Bros. of Leeds in south nave; Powell, Whitefriars, London in north nave; by Ward and Hughes in south chancel; by H.A. Payne in south chancel; by Wailes (and Strang) in north nave; by L.C. Evetts in south transept. Good quality anonymous glass in east windows. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3647

Northing:
6961

Grid Reference:
NZ36476961

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/52