Sailors Bethel is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Nonconformist chapel. 4 related planning applications.

Sailors Bethel

WRENN ID
sunken-corner-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Nonconformist chapel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sailors Bethel is a former seamen's nonconformist chapel built in 1875 by Thomas Oliver, with a Sunday School room added in 1900 by Oliver, Leeson, and Wood. The building features a sandstone ashlar retaining wall on the left and is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings. It has a roof made of small, thick dark slates and a lead-covered flèche. The structure is situated on a steep slope, with the main elevation facing Horatio Street having two storeys, while the rear side facing City Road is one storey.

The façade consists of three left bays and a three-bay chapel on the right. The entrance bay, located under a gable, has a square-headed double door with nook shafts and the letters "HIS" carved in a shield above it, along with a quatrefoil light. The two left bays under the gable feature tall sash windows with trefoiled heads above the retaining wall. Above the door is a stone mullioned-and-transomed window. The chapel has cusped lancets and a tall two-light east window in a three-sided apse, complete with a head-stopped drip-mould and flanked by gargoyles under the gable. The chapel's steeply-pitched hipped roof culminates in a tall round central flèche on the belfry, making it a prominent landmark above the Quayside.

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