Church Of St Michael With St Lawrence

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AVONDALE ROAD (north side) NZ 26 SE Byker. 12/76 Church of St. Michael with St. Lawrence (formerly listed 14.6.54 in Headlam Street) II G.V. Parish church. 1862-3 by W.L. Moffat. 1936 addition of north aisle and vestry. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with tower over south porch; chancel with north organ chamber and north vestry. Decorated style. Porch in second bay has moulded pointed arch with recessed boarded door; stone porch seats; 2 upper stages of tower have cusped lancets and 3-light bell openings; stone broach spire with lucarnes. 2-light aisle and chancel windows, 3-light east window and 4-light west window have block-stopped dripmoulds. Buttresses, diagonal at corners. 3 steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: Plaster with boarded dado in south aisle and ashlar dressings; arch-braced collar-beam roof to nave, scissor-braced to aisles and arch-braced to chancel, all resting on shafted corbels. 5-bay arcades with circular piers on south and octagonal on north; high chancel arch; aisle and 3-bay chancel arcade to organ chamber. Flat Tudor arch to vestry door. Octagonal Gothic font with shields 1843 by R. Scott; Gothic font cover. Glass in north aisle commemorates H.T. Ormerod, curate, 1893-189?

Listing NGR: NZ2729064479