Tyne and Wear HER(8227): Felling, Carlisle Street, Christ Church - Details
8227
Gateshead
Felling, Carlisle Street, Christ Church
Felling
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Parish Church
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Parish Church. 1866 by Austin and Johnson; north aisle and vestry 1903 by
J. Potts and Son. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; plinth. Steeply-
pitched roof of graduated Westmorland slate with flat stone gable copings.
Aisled nave and south porch; north and south porches to apsed chancel. Early
English style. Lancet windows, paired in south aisle and clerestory (with
flanking pilasters), stepped in north aisle. Double door with elaborate
hinges in gabled south porch. 5 apse windows in panels decorated with
dog-tooth. Massive buttresses frame arcaded west front, partly blind; buttresses
to nave. Boarded fleche at west end has slate roof and weather-vane finial;
stone cross finials; decorative ridge tiles to chancel. Interior: double-
chamfered arches to 5-bay nave arcades; high chancel arch with inner arch on
shafted corbels having realistic foliage decoration. Square font of Frosterley
marble. Painted apse decoration representing Gothic arcade. Memorial tablet
on south wall of chancel to founders and benefactors. H.L. Pattinson,
R.R. Redmayne, J.M. Redmayne. LISTED GRADE 2
2777
6230
NZ27776230
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/31