St Mark'S Church House

St Mark’s Church House, formerly St Mark’s Church, is a building of 1905-6, designed in 1904 by Hicks and Charlewood of Newcastle. It was built at the expense of W.D. Cruddas of Haughton Castle and consecrated on 10th March 1906. The building was altered in 1967. It is constructed in sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. The church is in the Perpendicular Revival style. The east front features a large, pointed arch window with panel tracery and a hood mould, topped by crocketed pinnacles and a finial. To the left is a lean-to with a pointed arch window and to the right a flat-headed mullion window. The south front has two windows for the chancel and six for the nave, with aisles and a clerestory. The north front includes a single-storey, hipped-roof vestry and a two-storey gabled organ chamber. The vestry has a mullion window and a pointed arch doorway; the organ chamber has a mullion window and a tall, pointed arch window above. The nave has five pointed arch windows. A single pointed arch doorway with double doors and a wooden tracery overlight is to the west. The clerestory features five flat-headed mullion windows and a single window to the west. The west front has a four-light pointed arch window. A gabled bellcote with two round-headed bell openings sits on the roof between the nave and chancel.

The interior features six-bay nave arcades with double-chamfered pointed arches, octagonal piers, and responds. It has an elaborate wooden single hammer beam roof. In 1967, the west section of the nave was partitioned off to create a hall, meeting rooms and kitchens, separated by a double-chamfered pointed arch. Fittings include a temporary organ by Bishop & sons and a wooden case, wooden pews, choir stalls and screens. There is an octagonal stone font with panel tracery (1906), with a wooden cover added in 1933, and a brass lectern (1906). The east window was dedicated as a war memorial on 8th June 1921.