Church Of St Helen is a Grade II* listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. Church.

Church Of St Helen

WRENN ID
muffled-casement-bramble
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1983
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. BELLEVUE BANK 5099 (north side)

NZ 2560 10/53 Church of St Helen

II*

  1. Parish Church to new Parish formed out of St John's. 1876 by John Wardle. Built at a cost of £13,000, the gift of Edward Joicey of Whinney House, Durham Road (qv). Large, solid Early English style. Coursed, rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Graduated lakeland slate roof. Cruciform with short apsidal chancel having cross- gabled vestry, large transepts and south-west tower with stone broach spire; north- west balancing porch. Stepped buttresses, lancets single and grouped, tower doorway with mouldings and nook-shafts.

Interior of snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Arch braced timber roof on carved corbels. Carved stone reredos, pulpit and font. Interesting glass:

  1. Chancel, 5 lancets, style of Morris & Co. Miracles. Transfiguration, Sermon on Mount.

  2. N & S transepts, evangelists and prophets, possibly Kempe.

  3. Nave, north side, Burne-Jones designs, saints.

One window in south transept signed G J Baguley, Newcastle, 1902. Brass plate to Edward Joicey, the donor.

Listing NGR: NZ2555960319

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