Church Of St Luke

NZ 26 NE 6/168 18.8.47

WALLSEND STATION ROAD (west side)

Church of St. Luke

II

G.V. Parish church. 1885-87 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood; 1895 west vestries; 1906 tower, chancel and lady chapel; land given by G.B. Hunter. Rock-faced snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings.4-bay aisled nave with west porch and vestries; north-east tower; south transept; apsed chancel and south lady chapel. Early English style. Central west double door; plate-traceried 3-light west aisle windows; triple aisle lancets and stepped triple clerestory lancets; 8-foil west window above 2 similar groups; 5 stepped east lancets. 3-stage tower. 3-light north window in high first stage; lancets above and Y-traceried belfry openings. Corbel table and panelled parapet; shallow set-back buttresses. Nave bellcote. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings. Boarded kingpost roofs. Dog-tooth moulding to round nave arcade piers. Open arches to chancel, lady chapel and tower organ chamber; paired columns to lady chapel; 2 steps to chancel, 2 to sanctuary.and 2 to altar. Glass in north aisle by Baguley, Newcastle; west window in north aisle as South African War Memorial; east window first World War Memorial by Wilhelmina Geddes of Dublin.

Listing NGR: NZ 29947 66308

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.