Land Of Green Ginger Shopping Mall And Former Church Hall Adjoining On East

TYNEMOUTH FRONT STREET (south side) NZ 3669 SE Tynemouth 9/67 Land of Green Ginger Shopping Mall and former church hall 16.11.78 adjoining on east. G.V. II Congregational church (now shopping mall) and hall. Church 1868 by Thomas Oliver; hall dated 1886 in door lintel. Coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. Stone spire and spirelets. Modified late C13 style. Church oriented north-south; ritual west to Front Street has tower at right, hall adjoining on east. Steps up to tower double door which has ballflower ornament to moulded arch on twin shafts; upper stages of tower have 2-light belfry openings beneath arcades with slit windows. Broach spire with lucarnes. 4-light west window. Lower one-bay link to 3-storey 3-bay gabled hall on left, of similar materials. Stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, the upper ones pointed-arched. Right return of church has 4 gables with 2-light windows. Historical note: hall erected by members and friends of the Congregational church for public and educational purposes. Source: H.E. Craster History of Northumberland vol. VIII 1907. p.377.

Listing NGR: NZ3684569354