Church Of St John The Evangelist

TYNEMOUTH ST. JOHN'S TERRACE NZ 36 NW (north side), Percy Main. 7/119 Church of St. John the Evangelist. II Parish church. 1862 by Salvin for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; slate roof with flat stone gable copings on kneelers. Aisled nave with south porch; short aisles to chancel. Moulded pointed arch to south door in gabled porch; shouldered priest's door to chancel. 2 tall west lancets divided by massive buttress continuing to corbelled, gabled bell-cote. Irregular-block jambs to lancets of aisles and clerestory, paired in south nave aisle; 3 stepped east lancets. Cross finials to steeply-pitched nave and chancel roofs, fleur-de-lis finial to porch. Interior: plaster; chamfered 4-bay nave arcades; rear arches to windows and doors; chamfered chancel arch with inner arch on shafted corbels; 2-bay arcades on low walls to chancel aisles. Corbelled shafts to arch-braced cellar-truss nave roof. Painted wooden First World War memorial panel in north aisle; glass in north aisle by Theophilus Storey of Newcastle in 1892; illuminated Our Father on wood panel in chancel; marble monument by G. Park, North Shields, to Arthur Tomlin Coates, vicar, died 1897.

Listing NGR: NZ3381067169

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.