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This set of photographs were taken during the 2004 Heritage Open Days when I visited Holy Saviour’s Church at Crossway, Tynemouth on 10th September 2004.

This is the only Church of England church in Tynemouth and was originally consecrated (11th August 1841 by Bishop Edward Maltby) as a chapel of ease to Christ Church, North Shields. It became a parish church in its own right on 16th April 1861.

The Duke of Northumberland Paid for the church to be built between 1839 and 1841, to a design by Newcastle based son and father, John and Benjamin Green. There were later enlargements to a design by F.R.N. Haswell, a North Shields based architect when the chancel was enlarged in 1884. The west porch to the church was added in 1972.

The spire was removed during World War 2 when it was considered as unsafe owing to gun vibration. Removal took place in 1949 and it was not replaced.