Description

NZ 36NW HEBBURN CHURCH STREET

1/76 No 1 St Andrew's Centre
(formerly listed as St
Andrew's United Reformed
Church)
15.6.82

GV II

Presbyterian, now United Reformed, church. 1872 by R J Johnson of Newcastle.
Coursed sandstone rubble; Welsh slate roofs. Nave and transepts; west entrance
porch; north-west tower. Decorated Gothic style. Porch has 3 crocketed gables,
the central one high with bud finial and having marble shafts flanking double
door; east gable has large round spoked window, both transepts have windows
of 2 lights and a large 10-foiled round window over; broad 5-bay nave. Very
tall and slender tower has much, decoration, including tall crocketed gablets
to belfry openings with marble shafts. Interior : semicircular panelled wooden
ceiling rising from ornate shafted corbels. Historical note: the building was
the gift of Andrew Leslie, whose shipbuilding firm dominated Hebburn in the
C19. It is prominent landmark at the top of the river valley. Former Church of
St Andrew.

Listing NGR: NZ3053665067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276143

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6