Church of St Bede is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Church.
Church of St Bede
- WRENN ID
- patient-footing-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Bede, Chapel Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 329 651
- Coordinates
- 54.97965, -1.48705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Bede is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Chapel Road in Jarrow. It was built between 1860 and 1862, with additions made by J Storer in 1883. The church is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and has a roof made of Welsh slate. It is oriented north-south and features a full-width low entrance porch added at the ritual west side, along with a large aisled ritual south transept from 1883.
The original building is designed in the early English style, while the additions reflect a perpendicular style. The church has a three-bay nave with lancet windows and a transept that consists of four bays. Above the elaborately decorated door in the gable, there is a large rose window, which is adorned with an ogee drip mould featuring angel stops and fleur-de-lis finials.
On the south elevation, at aisle level, there is a string course with griffin stops, and at each end, there is a two-light window. The clerestory contains four perpendicular windows, and the south gable features a five-light window with canopied niches on either side, positioned between two octagonal turrets that are decorated with dragons and gargoyles. The east gable of the church is rendered.
Local climate
Church of St Bede receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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