Gateshead, Gladstone Terrace, Baptist Church & Sunday School

HER Number:
8266

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Gladstone Terrace, Baptist Church & Sunday School

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Baptist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1877. Narrow courses of rusticated sandstone with ashlar dressings, in modified classical style. Two storeys, three bays, the centre wide and projecting with angle pilasters, entablature and pediment with carved ornament. First floor round arched window with archivolt crossed by impost string supported on two Ionic column mullions. Cill string. Ground floor triple arcade with round columns, archivolts, vermiculate keystones. Lower side bays with rounded corners to five-bay returns, entablature and balustraded parapet. Segment headed windows above, round arched below. On east return, a one-storey link of two narrow bays to a two-storey, three-bay school house of similar style and materials with a short balancing wing to south. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2568

Northing:
6240

Grid Reference:
NZ25686240

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 7/90; Peter Ryder, 2017, The Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead; Vindomora Solutions, 2019. Durham Road Baptist Church Historic Building Recording.