Former Church of St Jude, Shieldfield is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Church, workshop.
Former Church of St Jude, Shieldfield
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pedestal-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Church, workshop
- Address
- Former Church of St Jude, Shieldfield, Shield Court
- OS grid reference
- NZ 257 649
- Coordinates
- 54.97866, -1.59982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Church of St. Jude in Shieldfield, built in 1891 by A. B. Plummer, is now a workshop. It features dark red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The building is designed in a Romanesque style, comprising an aisled nave and chancel, an east apse, and a south-east chapel with an apse.
Notable architectural details include a triple-moulded surround to a round-headed boarded double door in the north aisle, flanked by gablets and featuring scrolled hinges. The round-headed windows are framed with stone surrounds under roll-moulded brick arches, set within panels formed by the plinth, pilasters, and a Lombard frieze of moulded brick. The clerestory lunettes exhibit varied glazing patterns. The apse has five high panels topped with five smaller panels, with the three central main panels containing small round-headed windows that have block-stopped drip moulds. The upper panels showcase basket brickwork, and each panel is topped with a Lombard frieze and a dentilled cornice. The south-east chapel has similar windows, while the north door is blocked, and the west front is blank. The roof is steeply pitched and curves over the apse, with a gabled wood bellcote positioned in the clerestory above the south door.
Inside, the church features brick with white stone ashlar dressings, a tongue-and-groove boarded dado, and a panelled ceiling. There is a stone sill band and frieze, with flat pilaster bay divisions and a brick entablature of quasi triglyphs and dentils that runs continuously across the apses at both ends. The top cornice is also dentilled. The interior includes five-bay round arcades with modified Corinthian capitals, and the apse has top lunettes with basket brickwork. A war memorial commemorating the parish's dead from the First World War is located in the west apse, consisting of a marble slab on a black mount.
Local climate
Former Church of St Jude, Shieldfield 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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