Church Of Holy Saviour

TYNEMOUTH CROSS WAY (east side) NZ 36 NE Tynemouth 8/52 Church of Holy Saviour 24.10.50 G.V. II Parish church. 1839 to 41 by John and Benjamin Green for Duke of Northumberland; chancel 1884; C20 west porch. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, dressings and buttresses; snecked sandstone vestry; ashlar west porch. Welsh slate roof has stone gable coping. West tower; nave with transepts; chancel with north vestry and porch, south organ chamber now Lady chapel. Perpendicular style. Truncated tower has one-storey porch under 3-light window; slit windows in upper stages under 2-centred-arched belfry openings; tall buttresses with offsets; battlemented parapet. 4-bay nave has 2-light windows, eaves string and coped parapet; 3-light transept windows; lancets to chancel; 4-light cusped east window has drip mould with foliage stops. Diagonal buttresses to nave, transepts and chancel. Moulded kneelers; cross finial to chancel. Interior: plastered above moulded painted plaster dado; chamfered arches to transepts, chancel and Lady chapel. Gothic-traceried hammer-beam nave roof; low-pitched king-post roof to chancel. Stencilled decoration on nave frieze. Panelled reredos and chancel fittings by W. S. Hicks. Glass by Powell Bros. of Leeds in south nave; Powell, Whitefriars, London, in north transept; by T.F. Curtis of Ward and Hughes, London, in north nave; by Ward and Hughes in south chancel; by H.A. Payne in south chancel; by Wailes (and Strang) in north nave; by L.C. Evetts in south transept. Good quality anonymous glass in east windows of transept.

Listing NGR: NZ3647369612