English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
District
Newcastle
Easting
424980
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564900
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Since standing in 1930.
Site Name
Lovaine Hall, St. Mary's Place
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6255
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Malcolm L Scaife, 1974, Newcastle Old and New
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
DAY2
09
District
Newcastle
Easting
424910
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
03
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564770
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
The Central Methodist Church was built in 1897. Shown on third edition Ordnance Survey map. This was the 'Cathedral' of Primitive Methodism. Large Gothic Church. Cost £15,563 8s 10d. Seated 700.
Site Name
Northumberland Road, Central Methodist Church
Site Type: Specific
Primitive Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6254
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
3rd edition Ordnance Survey map; Malcolm L Scaife, 1974, Newcastle Old and New; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Recreational
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
DAY2
12
District
Newcastle
Easting
424910
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564710
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Cinema
SITEDESC
Opened 20 December 1909. Could accommodate 1500 persons. The façade of the building was built of red pressed bricks with stone dressings. The body of the hall and the roof was of corrugated iron (later replaced by asbestos). Inside it was lined with wood and plaster. The architect was J. Shaw and the decoration by W.T. Gibson of Gosforth. The proscenium plasterwork was by Frediani Brothers. The hall was lit by electricity but also had gas emergency lighting. Olympia was owned by the Northern Cinematograph Company. In March 1910 Sidney Bacon took over the cinema. Sound arrived in 1929. Union Cinemas took over the Olympia in 1936. It was later run by ABC. The Olympia closed on 8 April 1961. The building was used as a warehouse by British Home Stores until demolition in 1971.
Site Name
Northumberland Road, Olympia Picture House
Site Type: Specific
Cinema
HER Number
6253
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Frank Manders, 1995, Bygone Central Newcastle I; G. Phillips, 1990, Newcastle Past and Present, p 64; Vanessa Histon, 2008, Keys to the City; Frank Manders, 1991, Cinemas of Newcastle, pages 119-120; Frank Manders, 2005, Cinemas of Newcastle, pages 12-15, 17, 24-25
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2008
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
18
District
Newcastle
Easting
425020
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MAP2
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564710
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
SITEASS
Nail making originated as a domestic craft in the C16. The nailer obtained strips or rods of iron from a forge equipped with a slitting mill. These were cut nails, rectangular or square in cross-section having been cut from iron sheets. Nails made by machine were introduced in the late C18 by Thomas Clifford, who patented machinery in 1790. These nails were stamped from the iron sheets. Later machines made nails from coils of round wire on automatic machinery (William Jones, 1996, Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology, H. Bodley, 1983, Nailmaking, Shire Publications).
Site Type: Broad
Metal Industry Site
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.
Site Name
Tyne Nail Works, John Dobson Street
Site Type: Specific
Nail Factory
HER Number
6252
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
15
DAY2
03
District
Newcastle
Easting
425040
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
07
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564750
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Army, riding school; now club. 1849, attributed to John Dobson, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented gable end to street contains 3 tall arched recesses with long keystones, the central projecting into blind stone roundel to stone-arched heads. Flat stone sills and surrounds to ground-floor windows and transomed first-floor round-headed windows, the transoms forming recessed sections of cornice. Central windows paired, with stone mullion. Source: H. Pease History of the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) 1924, p.12'. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Army, riding school; now club. 1849, attributed to John Dobson, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented gable end to street contains 3 tall arched recesses with long keystones, the central projecting into blind stone roundel to stone-arched heads. Flat stone sills and surrounds to ground-floor windows and transomed first-floor round-headed windows, the transoms forming recessed sections of cornice. Central windows paired, with stone mullion. Source: H. Pease History of the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) 1924, p.12'.
Army riding school for the Northumberland Yeomanry, later City of Newcastle Employees Club. Faulkner and Greg describe it as classical but a 'dour utilitarian structure'. Unusual for a Dobson building to be brick, but stone was used for some of the details such as the surrounds of the three arched windows. Ordnance Survey second edition shows 'Ginnett's Amphitheatre' (later shown only as 'Hippodrome') next to the building. For most of the second half of the nineteenth century, the recruits of the riding school received instruction from the famous Sergeant Major J. Burghersh Forbes, a hero of the 'Light Brigade'.
McCombie - restored 1991 by Ainsworth Spark for the Polytechnic. The hall had bare brick walls. Its complex roof trusses are now barely discernible.
Site Name
Northumberland Road, Army Riding School
Site Type: Specific
Riding School
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6251
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; T. Faulkner and A. Greg, 1987, John Dobson Newcastle Architect 1787-1865, pp 88-89; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 193; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1106254
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2024
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
District
Newcastle
Easting
425060
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 26 SE 313
Northing
564910
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Purpose-built and opened in 1885, Newcastle Eye Hospital had four wards and three private rooms. It cost £6,000. By the 1930s the hospital had a waiting list of 150 and was hampered by lack of space and facilities. It closed in 1957 when patients were transferred to Walkergate Hospital (HER 5390).
Site Type: Broad
Hospital
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Infirmary for the Diseases of the Eye. Purpose-built (designed by Newcombe and Knowles) in Queen Anne style in red brick and Dennick stone and green slate roof and opened in 1885, Newcastle Eye Hospital had four wards and three private rooms. It cost £6,000. By the 1930s the hospital had a waiting list of 150 and was hampered by lack of space and facilities. It closed in 1956-7 when patients were transferred to Walkergate Hospital (HER 5390). The Eye Hospital had first been opened by two surgeons (John Fife and Thomas Michael Greenhow) in Brunswick Place in 1822 (HER 7890). The poor were treated without charge. The hospital moved to Prudhoe Street in 1824 (HER 10738), before moving to Saville Row in 1856 and St Mary's Place in 1884.
Site Name
St. Mary's Place, Eye Infirmary
Site Type: Specific
Eye Hospital
HER Number
6250
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; Lynn Redhead, 1996, Hospitals; National Monument Record, RCHME Hospitals Project, 1991-1995, UID 1050602; UID 1075533 NBR 102630; Geoffrey Fisher & Rev. Terry Hurst, North East Methodist History Society, 2009, Brunswick Place 1821-1992, Newcastle upon Tyne, page 12
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
15
DAY2
13
District
Newcastle
Easting
425010
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
01
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564850
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
The school was built and owned by St. Thomas Church (HER 8897). It was run on the same principals as a National School. The school was built in 1838 and opened in June of that year. It had a ground floor schoolroom for boys and a first floor schoolroom for girls. The architect is unknown. Boys were taught reading and writing, girls reading, writing, knitting and sewing. Henry Page was the first teacher. The school could take 150 pupils. Before 1858 infant school extensions were built and separate yards for boys, girls and infants. In 1866 the ground floor school room was extended and in 1895 the infants rooms were extended and a cloakrooom built. In 1900 a play shed was built in the east yard and toilets. In 1906 two sets of cloakrooms and a second staircase to the upper floor were built. The school closed in 1937 at the end of the 90 year lease. Since 1960 the building has been unoccupied and is in deteriorating condition. The original and main range of the school building is in simple Tudor Gothic style. It is built of local snecked construction with a pitched slate roof with end chimneys. Windows on the ground floor have been enlarged from Tudor mullioned and transomed form. The first floor east gable window retains its original form. The is a small single storey extension at the east end and a two-storey extension at the west end, in sandstone with slate roofs. The extension to the ground floor school room has a gable chimney and timber ridge vent with an ornate finial. Several sections of the original high boundary wall survive. Inside there are three metal columns supporting the first floor. Some timber dado and skirting survives, along with original and secondary glazed timber screens, fireplaces, shallow cupboards and some gas light fittings. The first floor schoolroom has a Queen Post roof structure.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Newcastle's oldest surviving Victorian school, built and owned by St. Thomas Church (HER 8897). It was run on the same principals as a National School. The school was built in 1838 and opened in June of that year. It had a ground floor schoolroom for boys and a first floor schoolroom for girls. The architect is unknown. Boys were taught reading and writing, girls reading, writing, knitting and sewing. Henry Page was the first teacher. The school could take 150 pupils. Before 1858 infant school extensions were built and separate yards for boys, girls and infants. In 1866 the ground floor school room was extended and in 1895 the infants rooms were extended and a cloakroom built. In 1900 a play shed was built in the east yard and toilets. In 1906 two sets of cloakrooms and a second staircase to the upper floor were built. The school closed in 1937 at the end of the 90 year lease. Since 1960 the building has been unoccupied and is in deteriorating condition. The original and main range of the school building is in simple Tudor Gothic style. It is built of local snecked construction with a pitched slate roof with end chimneys. Windows on the ground floor have been enlarged from Tudor mullioned and transomed form. The first floor east gable window retains its original form. The is a small single storey extension at the east end and a two-storey extension at the west end, in sandstone with slate roofs. The extension to the ground floor school room has a gable chimney and timber ridge vent with an ornate finial. Several sections of the original high boundary wall survive. Inside there are three metal columns supporting the first floor. Some timber dado and skirting survives, along with original and secondary glazed timber screens, fireplaces, shallow cupboards and some gas light fittings. The first floor schoolroom has a Queen Post roof structure. The school was put forward for listing in Nov 2009 but was not added to the list.
Site Name
Vine Lane, St. Thomas School
Site Type: Specific
Church School
HER Number
6249
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; Dr. Myra Tolan-Smith, English Heritage (Listing) Initial Report, 25 November 2009; North of England Civic Trust, 2010, Conservation Plan: Former St Thomas' School and the Northumberland Baths, Newcastle upon Tyne; English Heritage (Listing) Advice Report, 18 January 2010
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2010
English, British
Class
Recreational
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
Crossref
6265, 12532
DAY1
15
DAY2
03
District
Newcastle
Easting
425020
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
07
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564810
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Newcastle
Description
The City Hall (HER 6265) and Baths were built in 1928 by C. Nicholas and J.E. Dixon Spain. Neo-Georgian design with a colonnaded entrance. They were listed Grade II in 1992 with the following description:
'City Hall and Public baths. 1928. Designed by Nicholas and Dixon-Spain.Steel framed, brown brick with ashlar and red brick dressings, and slate hipped roofs. Ashlar plinth. Northumberland Road, front two storeys and 25 windows. Central entrance block, 7 windows with slightly projecting 3 window centre topped by a large pediment with circular window. 3 round headed arches with panel pilasters, rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back on eitherside, a rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back eitherside, a rusticated ground floor with small barred basement windows and above single glazing bar sashes. Upper floor has single glazing bar sashes. Outer bays, set back again, also have glazing bar to each floor. 9 window side wings are similar, each has tall ashlar Doric portico with central columns between flanking antae, which project slightly in front of further antae topped by a heavy entablature and parapet. Set back on eitherside are blank walls, with further blank walls beyond. Above 5 square windows with moulded surrounds, set back on eitherside are single small square windows, and further single windows beyond all topped by a coped parapet. College Street front, 2 storey, 11 window front. Central, slightly projecting, 9 windows articulated with giant Doric pilasters, with ashlar bases and red brick dressings. Bays 4 and 6 have doorways with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, the remaining ground floor openings are square with plain stone surrounds. Above the doorways are tall panels with red brick surrounds. Above a thick ashlar band and 9 windows with moulded ashlar surrounds and bracketed cills, the central 7 openings have glazing bar cross casements and the outer ones are blind. Above a dentilated entablature with brick frieze and panel parapet above. Set back at eitherside a single bay, with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, above a single glazing bar sash to each floor with red brick surrounds and above a plain entablature. John Dobson Street front is similar with giant Doric pilasters supporting an entablature and panel parapet, with 3 large round headed doorways with moulded ashlar surrounds and large keystones, at the centre and over bays. Between 3 square windows on eitherside with plain ashlar surrounds, and above 9 square windows with moulded ashlar surrounds. At rear a tall tapering octagonal brick chimney stack with ashlar moulded cap. INTERIORS. City Hall has marble lined foyer with 3 round arches at either end, with mahogany and gilt fans, and between 2 urn shaped lamps. The north wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 5 similar entrance arches with double glazed doors and fanlights. Deeply coffered plaster ceiling: Eitherside are staircases with metal balustrades with wave mould decoration. Hall is rectangular with narrower raised stage to north, and a large gallery with extended curved sides to the south. Gallery front decorated with rosettes, panels and wave moulds. Deeply coved ceiling above dentilated cornice, with elaborate coffered centre. Behind the stage a later organ in an eighteenth century style case. Public Baths have rectangular foyer with round headed plaster openings and deeply moulded coving, and groin vaulted corridors. Mens bath has large rectangular tiled pool, and cantilevered viewing gallery around 3 slides with curved metal railings with Greek-key pattern, stepped wooden decking and wooden rails. Coffered plaster ceiling with central segmentally curved central section with sunken overlights. Womens bath similar, though smaller, without the gallery, and with a simpler ceiling with curved centre and overlights. Turkish bath has ashlar Doric pilasters and dado, mahogany panelled changing rooms and doors, circular glazed dome and coffered ceiling plus inlaid floor. Steam room has groin vaulted ceiling with 3 circular domes, and marble slabs.' LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Swimming Pool
SITEDESC
The City Hall (HER 6265) and Baths were built in 1928 by C. Nicholas and J.E. Dixon Spain. Neo-Georgian design with a colonnaded entrance. They were listed Grade II in 1992 with the following description:
'City Hall and Public baths. 1928. Designed by Nicholas and Dixon-Spain.Steel framed, brown brick with ashlar and red brick dressings, and slate hipped roofs. Ashlar plinth. Northumberland Road, front two storeys and 25 windows. Central entrance block, 7 windows with slightly projecting 3 window centre topped by a large pediment with circular window. 3 round headed arches with panel pilasters, rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back on eitherside, a rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back eitherside, a rusticated ground floor with small barred basement windows and above single glazing bar sashes. Upper floor has single glazing bar sashes. Outer bays, set back again, also have glazing bar to each floor. 9 window side wings are similar, each has tall ashlar Doric portico with central columns between flanking antae, which project slightly in front of further antae topped by a heavy entablature and parapet. Set back on eitherside are blank walls, with further blank walls beyond. Above 5 square windows with moulded surrounds, set back on eitherside are single small square windows, and further single windows beyond all topped by a coped parapet. College Street front, 2 storey, 11 window front. Central, slightly projecting, 9 windows articulated with giant Doric pilasters, with ashlar bases and red brick dressings. Bays 4 and 6 have doorways with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, the remaining ground floor openings are square with plain stone surrounds. Above the doorways are tall panels with red brick surrounds. Above a thick ashlar band and 9 windows with moulded ashlar surrounds and bracketed cills, the central 7 openings have glazing bar cross casements and the outer ones are blind. Above a dentilated entablature with brick frieze and panel parapet above. Set back at eitherside a single bay, with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, above a single glazing bar sash to each floor with red brick surrounds and above a plain entablature. John Dobson Street front is similar with giant Doric pilasters supporting an entablature and panel parapet, with 3 large round headed doorways with moulded ashlar surrounds and large keystones, at the centre and over bays. Between 3 square windows on eitherside with plain ashlar surrounds, and above 9 square windows with moulded ashlar surrounds. At rear a tall tapering octagonal brick chimney stack with ashlar moulded cap. INTERIORS. City Hall has marble lined foyer with 3 round arches at either end, with mahogany and gilt fans, and between 2 urn shaped lamps. The north wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 5 similar entrance arches with double glazed doors and fanlights. Deeply coffered plaster ceiling: Eitherside are staircases with metal balustrades with wave mould decoration. Hall is rectangular with narrower raised stage to north, and a large gallery with extended curved sides to the south. Gallery front decorated with rosettes, panels and wave moulds. Deeply coved ceiling above dentilated cornice, with elaborate coffered centre. Behind the stage a later organ in an eighteenth century style case. Public Baths have rectangular foyer with round headed plaster openings and deeply moulded coving, and groin vaulted corridors. Mens bath has large rectangular tiled pool, and cantilevered viewing gallery around 3 slides with curved metal railings with Greek-key pattern, stepped wooden decking and wooden rails. Coffered plaster ceiling with central segmentally curved central section with sunken overlights. Womens bath similar, though smaller, without the gallery, and with a simpler ceiling with curved centre and overlights. Turkish bath has ashlar Doric pilasters and dado, mahogany panelled changing rooms and doors, circular glazed dome and coffered ceiling plus inlaid floor. Steam room has groin vaulted ceiling with 3 circular domes, and marble slabs.'
The Baths were covered over during WWII due to fuel shortages and the building was used for the fire guard and an emergency telephone exchange. It was also host to an American servicemen club. The pools opened again in 1945 but winter they were covered and used for other activities until the early 1960s when it was decided that swimming should be a year round activity. Recorded in late 2016- early 2017 ahead of proposed refurbishment.
Site Name
Northumberland Road, City Baths
Site Type: Specific
Indoor Swimming Pool
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6248
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p.193; North of England Civic Trust, 2010, Conservation Plan: Former St Thomas' School and the Northumberland Baths, Newcastle upon Tyne; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - charting the heritage of people at play, p 176-177; The Archaeological Practice Ltd, 2017, Newcastle City Pool, Newcastle upon Tyne - Building Recording; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1242013
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2024
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
16
DAY2
03
District
Newcastle
Easting
425080
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
10
MONTH2
07
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564820
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Dame Allan's School, now Careers Centre. 1883 by R.J. Johnson. Brick with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roofs of plain tiles; lead tower roofs. 2 blocks forming nearly L-plan. 2 storeys, 9 bays: and set-back right bay. 3-storey towers flank central wide entrance bay. Projecting entrance has 3 open arches on 2 fat Tuscan columns with entasis; Ipswich oriel above. Towers have small square windows in first and third stages; tall sashes in second with keystones and segmental heads; top cornice, parapet with ball finials, and ogee-hipped roofs with vane finials. Similar sash windows in 3 bays set back at either sides shaped gable to right set-back bay and niche containing statue of Dame Allan. Steeply-pitched hipped roof to main block: with gable over central oriel; shaped gables and tall corniced, panelled chimneys to right return.' LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Dame Allan's School, now Careers Centre. 1883 by R.J. Johnson. Brick with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roofs of plain tiles; lead tower roofs. 2 blocks forming nearly L-plan. 2 storeys, 9 bays: and set-back right bay. 3-storey towers flank central wide entrance bay. Projecting entrance has 3 open arches on 2 fat Tuscan columns with entasis; Ipswich oriel above. Towers have small square windows in first and third stages; tall sashes in second with keystones and segmental heads; top cornice, parapet with ball finials, and ogee-hipped roofs with vane finials. Similar sash windows in 3 bays set back at either sides shaped gable to right set-back bay and niche containing statue of Dame Allan. Steeply-pitched hipped roof to main block: with gable over central oriel; shaped gables and tall corniced, panelled chimneys to right return.'
McCombie - in Norman Shaw's Queen Anne style. A charming building: fat Tuscan columns flank the entrance under an 'Ipswich' oriel; ogee-domed towers, thick-framed sash windows; fine entrance piers, repeated on the Northumberland Road wing, and railings.
Site Name
College Street, Dame Allan's School (College House
Site Type: Specific
Private School
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6247
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 17/199; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 144-5; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 40 and 193; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1320314
YEAR1
2006
YEAR2
2024
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
15
DAY2
03
District
Newcastle
Easting
425120
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
07
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
564840
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Newcastle
Description
This building was listed Grade II* in 1987 with the following description:
'Congregational, now United Reformed, Church. 1882-4 by T. Lewis Banks. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; grey and green slate roofs. Cruciform church, with corner, and side aisles, aligned north-south; ritual west porches and vestibule; Sunday School,hall and house behind. Free C13 style. Gabled west front has 10 arched windows under tall 5-bay arcade, the outer bays blind; higher blind arcade in gable peak; angle buttresses with spirelets. Flanking gabled porches have double doors with elaborate hinges, triple nook shafts, shouldered surrounds and carved tympana. Lancet windows, paired in corner and triple in side aisles. Complex high roofs, with slate-hung central lantern and tall octagonal spire. Interior: walls rendered, with ashlar dressings, above boarded dado. 4 square piers with shafts to arches of side aisles and lower arches of corner aisles. Glass roof on pendentives to lantern; arch-braced collar trusses to side aisles. West gallery. High Gothic-style pulpit with wrought-iron grilles. Choir pews are memorial to dead of both world wars. Much C19 painted glass, including, 2 windows by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle in memory of Elizabeth and Florence Dunford of 1888 and 1919; and one by G. J. Baguley and Son in memory of William Crossley d.1918. Source: J.C.G. Binfield 'The Building of a Town Centre Church : St James ' Congregational Church, Newcastle upon Tyne' Northern History v.XVIII, Leeds 1983, pp.l53-181.' LISTED GRADE 2*
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
This building was listed Grade II* in 1987 with the following description:
'Congregational, now United Reformed, Church. 1882-4 by T. Lewis Banks. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; grey and green slate roofs. Cruciform church, with corner, and side aisles, aligned north-south; ritual west porches and vestibule; Sunday School,hall and house behind. Free C13 style. Gabled west front has 10 arched windows under tall 5-bay arcade, the outer bays blind; higher blind arcade in gable peak; angle buttresses with spirelets. Flanking gabled porches have double doors with elaborate hinges, triple nook shafts, shouldered surrounds and carved tympana. Lancet windows, paired in corner and triple in side aisles. Complex high roofs, with slate-hung central lantern and tall octagonal spire. Interior: walls rendered, with ashlar dressings, above boarded dado. 4 square piers with shafts to arches of side aisles and lower arches of corner aisles. Glass roof on pendentives to lantern; arch-braced collar trusses to side aisles. West gallery. High Gothic-style pulpit with wrought-iron grilles. Choir pews are memorial to dead of both world wars. Much C19 painted glass, including, 2 windows by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle in memory of Elizabeth and Florence Dunford of 1888 and 1919; and one by G. J. Baguley and Son in memory of William Crossley d.1918. Source: J.C.G. Binfield 'The Building of a Town Centre Church : St James ' Congregational Church, Newcastle upon Tyne' Northern History v.XVIII, Leeds 1983, pp.l53-181.'
Refurbished in 1997. Remarkable ceiling, chandelier, stained glass and ironwork. Forms a group with Sunday School, hall and a house behind.
Site Name
Northumberland Road, Church of St James
Site Type: Specific
Congregational Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II*
HER Number
6246
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 40 and 195; 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 431; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024820
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2024