Chapel of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. Chapel.

Chapel of St Mary

WRENN ID
woven-keep-solstice
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne North MP: Catherine McKinnell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1954
Type
Chapel
Address
Chapel of St Mary, Reid Park Road
OS grid reference
NZ 259 665
Coordinates
54.99264, -1.59621
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chapel of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building located on Reid Park Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. It dates from the first half of the 12th century, with alterations made in the early 14th century and a mid-14th century addition of a sacristy. The chapel comprises a nave, chancel, and north sacristy, constructed from coursed squared sandstone. Currently, the building is roofless, with only fragments of the east end of the nave remaining.

The chancel arch features shafts with cushion capitals, one of which has scroll carving on the south side, along with some voussoirs that display roll and zig-zag mouldings. In the south chancel wall, there is a 2-light opening with cusped tracery, and the north sacristy wall contains two cusped ogee-headed lights within a square-headed opening. A north door is present in the sacristy. Inside, there are piscinae located in the south wall of the chancel and the east wall of the sacristy. The walls of the chapel stand up to about 4 meters high.

Local climate

Chapel of St Mary receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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