Church of St Joseph and Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Church.

Church of St Joseph and Presbytery

WRENN ID
rusted-cellar-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Joseph and Presbytery, West Street
OS grid reference
NZ 254 630
Coordinates
54.96113, -1.60334
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Joseph and Presbytery is a Roman Catholic building completed in 1858 by A M Dunn. It is constructed of coursed dressed stone and features a high-pitched slated roof in the French Gothic style. The church includes a nave, aisles, short transepts, and an east chevet with a swept pointed roof. There is a base for a tower at the north-west corner, although the tower itself was never built. A gabled chapel is located to the south-east. The church is notable for its elaborate tracery.

Adjoining the church is a low south link to the Presbytery, built from similar materials. The Presbytery is three storeys high and has three bays, designed in a modified Gothic style with shaped window heads. It was built to accommodate three priests.

Local climate

Church of St Joseph and Presbytery receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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