New Bridge Street, Priory of St. Dominic

HER Number:
6236

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
New Bridge Street, Priory of St. Dominic

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Religious House

Site Type: Specific:
Priory

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Roman Catholic Priory. Foundation stone dated 1887. By Dunn and Hansom. Flemish bond brick with terracotta dressings, Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. Two storeys. Pent roof to porch containing half-glazed door with coloured glass. Cusped windows and lancets. Spiral-topped drip moulds, sloping sills and moulded surrounds to all windows. Lintel strings on first floor with mask decoration.Octagonal brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
425830

Northing:
564470

Grid Reference:
NZ425830564470

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; M. Johnston and Father Tom Kearns, St Dominic's Church - A Visitor's Guide; Father Godfrey Anstruther, 1948, The Dominicans of Newcastle upon Tyne; B. Hodgson, 1992, The Dominicans in Newcastle: Part 2, 1539-1992 in Northern Catholic History, No. 33, 1992; Father John Orme Mills, 2001, Walking round Saint Dominic's, Newcastle