Christ Church And Hall Attached

Christ Church and the attached hall, located in Shieldfield Green, Newcastle upon Tyne, is a parish church built between 1859 and 1861 by architect A.B. Higham. The church is constructed of squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate roofs. It includes a southwest tower, an aisled nave with a canted porch in the first north bay, a chancel with a north vestry, and a south chapel, all designed in the Decorated style.

The shallow west porch has three gables above a tall, two-centred-arched door, flanked by triple niches. The northwest porch features a similar double door with crocketed gables and single niches, along with head-stopped drip moulds above moulded arches supported by shafts with flower capitals. The west elevation showcases a five-light window, while the projecting tower has three and two-light windows and large openings for the belfry. The structure is enhanced by angle buttresses with gargoyles and crocketed gables, culminating in a stone broach spire. The aisle windows are two-light with head-stopped drip moulds, and the east window has four lights, all topped with cross finials on the steeply-pitched roofs.

Inside, the church features painted plaster and painted ashlar, with an arch-braced roof supported by high collar and queen posts. Quatrefoil piers with crocket capitals support the moulded two-centred arches of the nave and two-bay chancel arcades, adorned with flower or head-stopped drip moulds. A tall chamfered tower arch leads to a door and boarded screen. The chancel is accessed by three steps, with one step leading to the sanctuary and another to the altar, all laid with medieval-style floor tiles. A Gothic-panelled wood reredos is present, along with a late 19th-century brass plaque on the north chancel wall commemorating William Boyd, a banker. The church also features a reconstructed medieval octagonal font.

The attached hall projects forward on the ritual south side, completing a stepped frontage to the green. It is a single-storey structure with a porch and a three-sided end facing the street. The hall has a moulded surround to a two-centred-arched door set back to the left, and three windows consisting of two pairs of Gothic lights under a continuous drip mould, all beneath a hipped roof.