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NZ 3568 SE
14/82

TYNEMOUTH
North Shields
HOWARD STREET (west side)
No. 25 (Tasker Hall)

(Formerly listed as No. 25)

G. V.
II

In 1796 John Wright (1730-1806), lawyer and property developer, purchased 50 acres of land between Norfolk Street and Newcastle Street from Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle, for the development of the New Town of North Shields. He developed several elegant streets and it is suggested Northumberland Place, Northumberland Square and Howard Street were originally part of a high-status street scheme which Wright, and his sons, devised and implemented before selling freehold buildings plots to individuals. A substantial mansion, Wakefield House, was built by George Wakefield (c 1764-1806, banker) as the northern vista to the intended grand principal way from Howard Street to Northumberland Square, but due to financial difficulties and the death of George Wakefield it was demolished in the 1800s. Northumberland Place and the south foot of Howard Street, below Saville Street, were developed first with housing and public buildings, with the earliest documentary evidence for Northumberland Place an 1800 release for premises. Between 1810 and 1816 Northumberland Square began development as a residential garden square when houses were built on the site of Wakefield House, re-using its materials and stylistically matching those already built on Northumberland Place. Further housing, public buildings and churches were built on Howard Street and Northumberland Square through the mid- to late C19.

This Sunday School for boys, girls and infants was built in 1841 by the Minister David Tasker for the Orthodox Presbyterian congregation, to replace a former school. It is attached to the south side of the Scotch Church, of 1811 by John Dobson, and forms part of the architectural composition of buildings used by the Presbyterian congregation. The building first appears on the 1:500 OS 1896 Town Plan of Northumberland Square. It became a church hall, known as Tasker Hall, before the First World War before its current use as a stage school for dance.

A non-conformist church school, now a dance studio, built around 1841 for the Scotch church. It is of two-storeys and built in sandstone ashlar; with a C20 pebble-dash rendered ground floor and a Welsh slate roof. The hipped roof has a tall corniced ashlar chimney to the north. The building breaks forward from the Scotch Church (now Salvation Army Citadel) with a three-bay elevation to the south and east. The main (east) elevation has C20 inserted doors across the two right (north) bays and a south window. The first floor has an architrave, sill band and sash windows with glazing bars, which is matched on the right return. The ground floor north return has blocked windows.

Listing NGR: NZ3564268392

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587305

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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