Church of St. Mary and St. Thomas Aquinas and presbytery adjoining. is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. Church, presbytery.
Church of St. Mary and St. Thomas Aquinas and presbytery adjoining.
- WRENN ID
- lone-moat-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- Church, presbytery
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Mary and St. Thomas Aquinas and adjoining presbytery were constructed between 1831 and 1832, with later additions between 1848 and 1849, by John Green and Dobson respectively. The church is Roman Catholic, and the presbytery is attached to the north.
The church is built of coursed squared sandstone with plinth and ashlar dressings, and has a roof of Westmorland slate with stone gable copings. It is aligned north-south, comprising a six-bay nave and a chancel. The nave has alternate block jambs and sloping sills to lancet windows, with gabled buttresses between bays. A steeply-gabled porch with an elaborate doorway is located in the second bay; above the porch is a three-mouchettes window. The chancel features three lancets and stepped buttresses. Cross finials mark the low-pitched roof of the nave and the steeply-pitched roof of the chancel. An octagonal stone belfry rises above the chancel arch, topped with a spirelet and weather vane finial.
Inside the church, the lancets have deep splays. The pointed chancel arch has a dog-tooth moulding on shafted columns with foliage capitals. The chancel includes sedilia on the south side and a seat resembling a wall tomb on the north. Other interior features include a Gothic revival altar and a wooden communion rail. A window in the first north bay of the nave commemorates Thomas Parker, a priest who died in 1847, along with other good quality Victorian glass, also in the porch.
The presbytery is built of sandstone ashlar with a roof concealed by a parapet. It is in the Perpendicular style, extending three storeys and five windows in width. The north elevation has a central projecting bay and corner turrets. The central entrance features a pointed-arched door recessed within a flat-headed surround, with mouchettes in the spandrels under a label mould. A three-light transomed window sits above the door, flanked by bracketed niches under label moulds, with ogee-headed niches in the gable peak. Flanking recessed bays have two-light windows, while the square turrets each have a single-light sash window with stone mullions. The roof features a high central ridge flanked by two low ledges. Inside the presbytery, the turrets provide corner cupboards, and doors are a mix of Gothic and three-over-three panelled styles. A blocked door on the second landing previously connected to the church's organ loft.
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