Church of St Hilda is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Church of St Hilda

WRENN ID
shifting-chapel-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1985
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Hilda, Stella Road, NE21 4NN
OS grid reference
NZ 165 642
Coordinates
54.97221, -1.74343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Hilda is a parish church built between 1889 and 1892 by architects Oliver and Leeson. It is constructed from snecked yellow sandstone with irregular sections of red sandstone, featuring a plinth and ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. The church is designed in the Arts and Crafts Gothic style and includes a west tower, a four-bay nave with a south aisle, and a two-bay chancel with a north vestry and a stair tower that leads to an undercroft built into the hill.

The wide west tower has a pointed-arched, boarded double door set in an ornamental square surround, with a three-light mullioned and transomed traceried window above. The tower also features traceried paired belfry openings and a battlemented parapet, along with angle and diagonal buttresses. The nave has two-light windows, the chancel has three-light windows, and there is a five-light east window. The five-sided stair tower to the vestry has three cusped lancets on each plane, a traceried band, and a battlemented parapet.

Inside, the church has plaster wainscoting above sill level, rear arches to the windows, and a double-chamfered, pointed five-bay arcade leading to the nave and tower. The nave features a wagon roof, while the chancel roof is square-panelled with Tudor bosses.

Local climate

Church of St Hilda receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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