Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1950. Church.

Church of St Bartholomew

WRENN ID
inner-gateway-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Tyneside
Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne North MP: Catherine McKinnell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1950
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Bartholomew, Station Road
OS grid reference
NZ 276 691
Coordinates
55.01597, -1.56869
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church located on Station Road in Longbenton. It was rebuilt in 1790, with repairs made in 1842 and further work carried out between 1873 and 1875. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a plinth, a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, and a stone spire, all designed in the Perpendicular style.

The structure includes a west tower, a four-bay nave, a north porch, a south aisle with a porch, and a three-bay chancel with south aisles and a north vestry. The two-stage tower has a two-light west window beneath a two-centred-arched belfry opening, diagonal buttresses, and corner pinnacles at the battlements, topped with an octagonal spire that has a weather-vane. The south porch features a deeply-recessed two-centred-arched door with an ogee drip mould. The south aisle windows consist of two and three lights, and the porch is battlemented. The chancel and south aisle are styled similarly, with two lancet windows. The east window consists of three stepped lancets under a head-stopped drip mould. The two-bay north vestry has an elliptical-headed door.

Inside, the church has plaster walls with ashlar dressings and corbelled elliptical-arched braces supporting the collar-beam roof trusses, which have upper king posts. There are two small cross-incised grave slabs positioned above the aumbry and piscina. The grave slabs on the east nave wall commemorate John Fenwick, who died in 1581, John Killingworth and family members who died between 1587 and 1720, and on the tower wall, Edward Hindmarsh who died in 1708 and Ralph Anderson who died in 1687. The church also contains a stone font from 1857 and a bronze memorial slab for the First World War mounted on the west wall. The glass features non-pictorial designs by L.C. Evetts, with 19th-century glass from the east window relocated to the south organ chamber.

Local climate

Church of St Bartholomew 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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