Description

NZ 16 SE NEWBURN SCOTSWOOD ROAD (north end)

10/41 Church of Holy Saviour

G.V. II

Parish church. 1836-37; by Benjamin Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aligned
north-south; nave with ritual north porch and south vestry and lower, set-back
sanctuary. Early English style. High pointed arch to boarded door in steeply-
gabled porch; 3-light east window, lancets in sanctuary and east nave, 2-light
windows in nave; wide chamfered buttress, dividing west lancets, beneath bell-
cote. Low-pitched roof. Interior: plaster, sloping sills to windows; queen-post
roof with pendants. Blind high pointed west arch; high pointed moulded arches
to doors; moulded arch to sanctuary, one step above chancel, which is paved
with Caithness flags as Second World War memorial. Historical note: said to be
aligned north-south to avoid disused pit shaft on east.

Listing NGR: NZ1883064471

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481355

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)