Sheriff Hill, Church Road, Church of St. John

HER Number:
8320

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sheriff Hill, Church Road, Church of St. John

Place:
Sheriff Hill

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Extant Building

Description:
1825 by Ions, a builder who worked for John Green but here acted as architect. Ashlar with low pitched Welsh slate roof. West tower with very tall stone spire, a land and sea mark. Simple Gothick preaching box with very short chancel, lancet windows. Tower projects in centre of three-bay west front, and has diagonal buttresses and battlements. Three pairs of cusped lancets with quatrefoil spandrels and hoodmoulds. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2646

Northing:
6048

Grid Reference:
NZ26466048

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 11/10; Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Sheriff Hill Conservation Area, pp 79-82 (Supplementary Planning Guidance); Gateshead Council, July 2003, Sheriff Hill Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 14-19; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 20