Tyne and Wear HER(9127): Newcastle, New Bridge Street, Church of St. Dominic - Details
9127
Newcastle
Newcastle, New Bridge Street, Church of St. Dominic
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Church
Roman Catholic Church
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Roman Catholic Priory Church. 1869-73 by A. M. Dunn. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel with apse and ambulatory/vestry. Aligned north-south, with altar at south. Ritual south-west tower above adjacent gateway to priory yard. C13 style. West front has entrance obscured by mid C20 porch containing re-used doors with studs and 'D' motif in iron. Blind arcade above porch contains central gabled niche with headless statue: large wheel window above flanked by carved symbols of Evangelists. West buttresses, the right widened into a stair turret, have empty gabled niches.
Gatehouse at right has splayed reveals to moulded arch under dripmould; empty niche above; blind arcade beneath hipped roof with four top gablets. Lancets in aisles, paired on south; triple clerestory windows in bays defined by buttresses.
9 high lancets in apse. Steeply-pitched roofs. Interiors: polychrome brick above
boarded dado; ashlar dressings; painted plaster apse; collar-truss roof. 6-bay
nave and one-bay chancel have round piers with stiff-leaf capitals supporting
moulded arches; carved heads in spandrels below continuous dripmould; Frosterley
marble shafts with clasping bands to chancel and chancel aisle arches. Rere-arches
to windows. Crocketed stalls in chancel are 1826 from Peterborough Cathedral.
1879 alabaster pulpit with scenes of life of St. Dominic. Marble communion rail.
Square font on marble shafts. Patterned tiled floor in chancel. Glass by Atkinson
Bros. Newcastle in south aisle. Large painting by Dastis of St. Dominic in Lady
Chapel. LISTED GRADE 2
2584
6447
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Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 12/414; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare) , 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 425-430; NECT, 2017, St Dominic's Priory Church, Conservation Statement