Church of St George is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St George
- WRENN ID
- spare-transept-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St George, Durham Road, NE9 5BN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 258 617
- Coordinates
- 54.94964, -1.59863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St George, built in 1899 and designed by architect Stephen Piper, is a notable structure located on Durham Road. It is constructed from rusticated snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a very tall nave with passage aisles in the Arts-and-Crafts lancet style. The church has a south-west saddleback tower with angle turrets and a matching north-west porch. It includes two wide nave bays and two gabled transept bays of equal width, along with a long, tall chancel that has low aisles and a half-octagonal south vestry projection with mullion-and-transom windows. The windows of the church are either grouped or stepped lancets.
Inside, the church presents a lofty, plain, and dignified atmosphere, with ashlar and plaster finishes. The wood barrelled roof is supported by braces that rest on stone corbels. The woodwork and metal fittings are of good quality, and there is pleasing stained glass in the east and west windows as well as in the south aisle.
Local climate
Church of St George receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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