Jesmond United Reformed Church And Hall Attached

The Jesmond United Reformed Church and attached hall, located on Burdon Terrace in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, was built between 1887 and 1888 by W.L. Newcombe. The church is a non-conformist building constructed of coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings. The roofs are of graduated Lakeland slate with bright red terra-cotta ridge tiles and a stone cross finial. The design is in a Free Gothic style, with a north-south alignment and a ritual south-west tower.

A prominent west porch features paired half-glazed doors and overlights recessed within it, supported by paired pink granite shafts with ashlar stiff-leaf capitals and 2-centred arches, topped by a gabled drip mould. Above the porch are two 3-light windows, and a gable peak features an almond-shaped window above five stepped lancets with slits, capped with a stone cross finial and angle buttresses with a stone spirelet. The three-stage tower includes a 3-light window on the first stage, quatrefoil lights on the second stage, tall paired 2-light belfry openings on the third stage, and a parapet with pinnacles and a spirelet, all set against angle buttresses. Cusped lancets are found elsewhere, paired in the clerestory and gabled transepts.

Inside, the walls are painted plaster above a boarded dado, with a king-post roof supported on shafted brackets. Four-bay arcades have round pink granite columns with ashlar plinths and capitals, ashlar half-column responds, and double-chamfered 2-centred arches featuring a continuous drip mould with flower stops. A tall, double-chamfered chancel arch has a corbelled inner shaft, and the chancel itself has a barrel roof. A gallery occupies the west end, above the vestibule. The chancel is filled by an organ with stencilled decoration, along with a Gothic-style central pulpit and a sounding board; a similar-style communion table is also present. The octagonal font sits on green marble shafts. Stained glass windows are by Kempe and Co and Dearle of Morris and Co. A high-relief war memorial by Gilbert depicts soldiers, St. George, an angel, and a Crucifixion, along with the battle honour of the Tyneside Scottish Regiment from the First World War.

The attached hall, to the west front, is linked by a 3-bay arcaded passage and features paired 3-light windows under a gable containing 3 cusped slits, buttresses, and a roof with small gabled ventilators.