Church Of St Michael With St Lawrence

The Church of St Michael with St Lawrence is a parish church located on Avondale Road in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. It was built between 1862 and 1863 by architect W.L. Moffat, with an addition of a north aisle and vestry in 1936. The church is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, and features Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings.

The building has an aisled nave topped by a tower above the south porch, and a chancel that includes a north organ chamber and a north vestry. It is designed in the Decorated style. The porch, located in the second bay, has a moulded pointed arch with a recessed boarded door and stone seats. The tower's upper stages include cusped lancets and three-light bell openings, topped by a stone broach spire with lucarnes. The windows in the aisles and chancel are two-light, while the east window has three lights and the west window has four lights, all featuring block-stopped dripmoulds. The corners of the church are supported by diagonal buttresses, and it has three steeply-pitched roofs.

Inside, the church has plaster walls with a boarded dado in the south aisle and ashlar dressings. The nave features an arch-braced collar-beam roof, while the aisles have scissor-braced roofs and the chancel has an arch-braced roof, all resting on shafted corbels. There are five-bay arcades with circular piers on the south side and octagonal piers on the north side, along with a high chancel arch and a three-bay chancel arcade leading to the organ chamber. The vestry door has a flat Tudor arch. An octagonal Gothic font, created in 1843 by R. Scott, features shields and a Gothic font cover. Additionally, stained glass in the north aisle commemorates H.T. Ormerod, who served as curate from 1893 to 189?.