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Latitude: 54.9742 / 54°58'27"N
Longitude: -1.5752 / 1°34'30"W
OS Eastings: 427290
OS Northings: 564479
OS Grid: NZ272644
Mapcode National: GBR SVT.D8
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.S73K
Plus Code: 9C6WXCFF+MW
Entry Name: Church of St Michael with St Lawrence
Listing Date: 14 June 1954
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1024948
English Heritage Legacy ID: 304375
ID on this website: 101024948
Location: St Michael's Church, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE6
County: Newcastle upon Tyne
Electoral Ward/Division: Byker
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Byker St Michael with St Lawrence
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Church building
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AVONDALE ROAD (north side)
NZ 26 SE
Byker.
12/76 Church of St. Michael with
St. Lawrence (formerly listed
14.6.54 in Headlam Street)
II
G.V.
Parish church. 1862-3 by W.L. Moffat. 1936 addition of north aisle and vestry.
Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roofs with
stone gable copings. Aisled nave with tower over south porch; chancel with
north organ chamber and north vestry. Decorated style. Porch in second bay
has moulded pointed arch with recessed boarded door; stone porch seats; 2 upper
stages of tower have cusped lancets and 3-light bell openings; stone broach
spire with lucarnes. 2-light aisle and chancel windows, 3-light east window
and 4-light west window have block-stopped dripmoulds. Buttresses, diagonal
at corners. 3 steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: Plaster with boarded dado in
south aisle and ashlar dressings; arch-braced collar-beam roof to nave,
scissor-braced to aisles and arch-braced to chancel, all resting on shafted
corbels. 5-bay arcades with circular piers on south and octagonal on north;
high chancel arch; aisle and 3-bay chancel arcade to organ chamber. Flat Tudor
arch to vestry door. Octagonal Gothic font with shields 1843 by R. Scott;
Gothic font cover. Glass in north aisle commemorates H.T. Ormerod, curate,
1893-189?
Listing NGR: NZ2729064479
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