Gibside Chapel, Gateshead
Gibside Chapel, Gateshead
Gibside Chapel is a Grade I Palladian chapel and mausoleum on the National Trust’s Gibside estate at Rowlands Gill, designed by James Paine for the coal owner George Bowes and completed for burial and consecration in 1812.
- Location
- Gateshead, Northumberland
- Country
- England
- County
- Northumberland
- City / town
- Gateshead
- Address
- Rowlnds Gill, Gateshead, Northumberland, NE16 6BG
- Postcode
- NE16 6BG
- Built
- 1760–69; interior completed 1812
- Consecrated
- 1812
- Architect
- James Paine
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Palladian
- Materials
- Ashlar with a lead-covered dome; pale grey Streatlam stone
- Grid reference
- NZ 171 582
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists the chapel about 350 metres west and 650 metres south of Gibside Hall as a chapel and mausoleum of 1760–69, completed in 1812, designed by James Paine for George Bowes, MP and coal owner. The fabric is ashlar with a lead-covered dome. The plan is a Greek cross in the Palladian style, Ionic order, one tall storey on a basement, with side stairways and a front balustrade to a prostyle tetrastyle pedimented portico. Sitelines and National Trust records describe pale grey Streatlam stone, a dome carried on four arches over barrel-vaulted arms, and a central Holy Table beneath the dome with a three-decker pulpit under the western arch. A groined mausoleum vault beneath has niches arranged in a semicircle. George Bowes (d.1760) and his wife were transferred here from Whickham parish church after consecration in 1812 at the instigation of the 10th Earl of Strathmore. The chapel balances the Column to Liberty at the far end of the Long Walk.
The estate is in National Trust care. Check Gibside opening times before visiting.