Church of St Dominic is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1971. Church.

Church of St Dominic

WRENN ID
third-step-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1971
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Dominic, New Bridge Street
OS grid reference
NZ 258 644
Coordinates
54.97425, -1.5979
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Dominic is a Roman Catholic Priory Church located on New Bridge Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was built between 1869 and 1873 by architect A. M. Dunn. The church features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It has an aisled nave and chancel with an apse and ambulatory/vestry, aligned north-south with the altar positioned at the south end.

A ritual south-west tower is situated above the adjacent gateway to the priory yard, designed in a 13th-century style. The west front has an entrance that is obscured by a mid-20th century porch, which contains re-used doors adorned with studs and a 'D' motif in iron. Above the porch is a blind arcade with a central gabled niche that holds a headless statue, and a large wheel window flanked by carved symbols of the Evangelists. The west buttresses, with the right one widened into a stair turret, have empty gabled niches.

To the right is the gatehouse, featuring splayed reveals to a moulded arch beneath a dripmould, with an empty niche above it. The gatehouse also has a blind arcade beneath a hipped roof with four top gablets. The aisles contain lancet windows, paired on the south side, and there are triple clerestory windows in bays defined by buttresses. The apse has nine high lancets and the roofs are steeply pitched.

Inside, the church features polychrome brick above a boarded dado, ashlar dressings, and a painted plaster apse with a collar-truss roof. The nave has six bays and the chancel has one bay, supported by round piers with stiff-leaf capitals and moulded arches. Carved heads are present in the spandrels below a continuous dripmould, and the chancel and chancel aisle arches have Frosterley marble shafts with clasping bands. The windows have rere-arches, and the chancel contains crocketed stalls from 1826, originally from Peterborough Cathedral.

There is a 1879 alabaster pulpit depicting scenes from the life of St. Dominic, a marble communion rail, and a square font on marble shafts. The chancel floor is patterned with tiles, and the south aisle features glass by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle. A large painting of St. Dominic by Dastis is located in the Lady Chapel.

Local climate

Church of St Dominic 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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