Jesmond Church Of St Hilda

NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE THORNLEIGH STREET (south side) 9/546 Jesmond. Church of 14.6. St. Hilda GV II Parish church, originally daughter church of St. George, Jesmond. 1900-5 by Hicks and Charlewood. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel, north-west belfry; north vestry. Perpendicular style. Moulded 2-centred arch to double boarded door in west bay of north aisle; low octagonal belfry at right. Square-headed 5-light windows in nave aisles, 2-light in chancel. 5-light east window has 2-centred head and flowing tracery. Set-back buttresses; roll-moulded parapet and gable coping with cross finial; hipped roof to vestry. Tall central copper-covered fleche has swept eaves and slender iron cross finial. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; pointed barrel roof. 4-bay nave has alternate round and octagonal piers with double-chamfered arches on moulded capitals; 2 octagonal piers to Lady chapel. Blind west arch; shouldered arch to vestry door. Octagonal font has blind tracery and square flower bosses. War memorial triptych by F.H. Newbery A.R.C.A. showing figures of soldier, sailor, locomotive engineer and miner, with Saints Nicholas and Hilda, in cil, in north aisle.

Listing NGR: NZ2520166479

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.