St John the Baptist, Newcastle
St John the Baptist, Newcastle
St John’s is a Grade I parish church on the corner of Grainger Street and Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the Diocese of Newcastle.
- Location
- Newcastle, Tyne & Wear
- Country
- England
- County
- Tyne & Wear
- City / town
- Newcastle
- Address
- Grainger Street, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, NE1 5JG
- Postcode
- NE1 5JG
- Built
- Mostly 14th and 15th centuries; chancel largely rebuilt 1848
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- John the Baptist
- Diocese
- Newcastle
- Parish
- Newcastle St John the Baptist
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval Perpendicular town church
- Materials
- Sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof
- Grid reference
- NZ 247 640
- Opening hours
- Open every day 8.30am to 4pm. Usually close at lunchtime on Friday to Sunday.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England dates the parish church mostly to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with the chancel largely rebuilt in 1848. The fabric is sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The plan is cruciform, with aisles clasping the west tower, a south porch, and a north transept with a west aisle.
The three-stage tower has a three-light west window, bar-traceried two-light belfry openings, a battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles, and octagonal clasping buttresses. Aisle windows are segmental-headed with Perpendicular tracery. Inside, four-bay arcades have double-chamfered arches dying into octagonal piers without capitals. The baptistry under the tower has a ribbed vault. Fittings include a seventeenth-century octagonal stone font with shields. A small round-headed window survives high in the north chancel wall.