Church of All Saints, Gosforth
Description: Church of All Saints
Grade: II
Date Listed: 10 November 1949
English Heritage Building ID: 304343
OS Grid Reference: NZ2410967758
OS Grid Coordinates: 424109, 567758
Latitude/Longitude: 55.0038, -1.6246
Location: West Avenue, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3 4DT
Locality: Gosforth
Local Authority: Newcastle upon Tyne
County: Tyne And Wear
Country: England
Postcode: NE3 4DT
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Listing Text
NZ 26 NW GOSFORTH WEST AVENUE
8/23 Church of All Saints
10 November 1949
II
Parish church. 1885-1887 by R.J. Johnson; tower 1896. Sandstone ashlar with
moulded plinth; roofs of plain tiles over nave and chancel, Welsh slate else-
where. West tower with porches; aisled nave and chancel. Perpendicular style.
3-stage tower has high 4-light window with reticulated tracery; small 2-light
square-headed window above; high 3-light transomed belfry openings with sill
string; angle buttresses. l0 clerestory windows to nave, 5 to chancel, all
of 2 lights and square-headed; similar windows varying from 2 to 4 lights in
aisles; very big 7-light 2-centred-arched east window. Angle buttresses to
east front; double door in north-west porch. Tudor flower corbel tables and
battlemented parapets; gargoyles to tower corbel table above quatrefoiled
band. Interior shows painted plaster walls with ashlar dressings; panelled
dado; arch-braced collar-beam roof with painted carved bosses. Octagonal
piers with high plinths to 5-bay nave and 2-bay chancel arcades. High
chancel arch and tower arch; high-quality panelling by Hedley in chancel
and tower baptistry; rood screen also by Hedley. Glass includes east
window by Heaton, Butler and Baynes of London. Elaborately-carved Gothic
font and cover.
Listing NGR: NZ2410967758
Source: English Heritage
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