Tyne and Wear HER(8978): Newcastle, Westgate Road, Nos. 270 to 286, Prudhoe St Mission - Details
8978
Newcastle
Newcastle, Westgate Road, Nos. 270 to 286, Prudhoe St Mission
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Mission Hall
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Shops, mission hall and offices. 1900-2 by Crouch and Butler, Birmingham, as
Wesleyan Mission Hall. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of dark
slates with lead dome. Free Art Nouveau style. 4 storeys and attics, with 5-storey
left tower; 9 bays. Corner double door with pilasters, frieze and cartouches,
recessed in quadrant-moulded surround; rusticated floor pilasters with cartouches.
Upper floors have group of 4 two-storey round-headed windows, with long keystones
and stone mullions and transoms, flanked by 2-storey oriels in first bay and 2
right end bays. Much carved Jacobean-style ornament. Dentilled cornice; stepped
gables over round-headed windows. Corbelled-out left corner tower is octagonal
with cable-moulded bow windows. Mansard roof has finials, egg-and-dart corniced
chimneys; high octagonal dome over tower has cartouches, masks, lucarnes and
top lantern with spike-and-ball finial. Foundation stones bear names of
Methodist circuits of area and of T.H. Bainbridge, J.P., and Sir W.H. Stephenson,
J.P. Left return to Corporation Street of 3 storeys and 6 bays has high broken
segmental pediments over 3 double doors to school and hall; tall double keystones
to ground floor mullioned-and-transomed windows; upper floors in similar style to
Westgate Road front. LISTED GRADE 2
2387
6419
NZ23876419
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 18/582; Brenda Whitelock, n.d., Timepieces of Newcastle, page 19; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey