Church Of St Nicholas

The Church of St Nicholas is a parish church located on Church Road in Gosforth. The tower and west end were constructed in 1799 by John Dodds after the earlier church was demolished. Additional work was carried out by John Dobson in 1820, with further modifications made in 1912/13 and 1950. The church is built of sandstone ashlar and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof.

The structure includes a west tower with north and south porches, an aisled nave with north vestries and a second north aisle, and a chancel with porches and a small apse. The west porches have flat stone lintels above the double doors. The three-stage tower has a west window, a similar blind window above it, and belfry openings in the set-back third stage below a cornice, topped with an octagonal stone spire that has swept eaves. There is a blocked south door and an inserted south-east door, both with flat stone lintels. All windows are round-headed, with the nave windows recessed and featuring projecting stone sills in tall round-arched panels. Smaller narrow square-headed windows flank the main east window. The building has coped parapets above the eaves band, stone gable coping with a cross finial, and a semi-dome over the apse.

Inside, the church has painted plaster above a panelled dado and a segmental boarded roof with side vaults leading to two oeuils de boeuf. The nave arcades consist of two wide elliptical arches with narrow arches at the east and west ends, and there is a five-arched arcade leading to the extra north aisle. The chancel arch is in the Ionic Order, and the sanctuary is panelled. Headstones are built into the south aisle wall. Notable glass includes a memorial to J.B. and M.A. Row created by G.J. Baguley of Newcastle in 1902.