Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre is a Grade I listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Chapel, community centre. 4 related planning applications.

Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre

WRENN ID
knotted-oriel-ash
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Chapel, community centre
Address
Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre, High Street, NE8 1EP
OS grid reference
NZ 257 631
Coordinates
54.9622, -1.6001
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre is an early 13th-century building featuring five bays. Its gable end facing the road showcases an elaborate design of seven stepped and moulded lancets beneath dripmoulds, with only the lancets at Nos 2, 4, and 6 being glazed. Below these lancets is a multi-moulded central doorway, which has three orders of nook shafts and is flanked by upper and lower pairs of trefoil-headed, multi-moulded blank arches. The south side of the chapel includes single lancets with plain chamfered heads and nook shafts, as well as stepped buttress bay divisions.

To the north is the Community Centre, which was formerly a church built in 1837 by John Dobson. This structure is related in design to the chapel and features five stepped lancets in its gable end, also under a relieving arch and dripmould. A projecting porch leads to the north vestry, which has an undercroft, and there is an octagonal turret topped with a short stone spire. This part of the building has been divided into two floors for community use, but retains its architectural features.

In the forecourt on the south side stands a fine late 16th-century stone doorway, which has short fluted pilasters, an entablature, and a flattened Tudor arched entrance. This doorway was relocated from the front of a court and originally served as the entrance to Gateshead House, which was built on the site of St Edmund's Hospital by William Riddell.

Local climate

Chapel of St Edmund and Trinity Centre 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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