South Shields, Dean Road, Church of St. Mary

HER Number:
8074

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Dean Road, Church of St. Mary

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
1861-62. John Dobson Architect. A handsome, dignified church in the "Decorated" style. Ashlar, of uneven courses, and slate roofs. The church has a chancel, nave with tall north and south aisles, buttressed, no clearstorey, a west tower and porch and vestry. The composition of the west front is most successful. The nave gable wall has a central buttress of 2 stages, to either side 2 tiers of windows and in the apex a rose window. At the north-west a sturdy square tower with angle buttresses; from its west face projects a gabled porch. This porch is balanced on the south-west by a gabled vestry projecting from the south aisle. The original design for the tower was not completed and the stump was capped by a pyramidal roof. This was removed in 1958 and the existing upper stage above the buttresses built. Demolished. Was listed grade 2.

Easting:
3575

Northing:
6530

Grid Reference:
NZ35756530

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 12/24; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1985, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 417