Newcastle upon Tyne No. 2

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Source caption: "View of St Andrews from Gallowgate. St Andrew's Church dates from the C12 and is regarded as Newcastle's oldest. The city walls passed close by in the C13 and a surviving short section can be seen at the base of the gable end on the left. During the civil war siege of the city, a cannon was placed on the church tower, to defend this section of the walls."
Scene Description: Source caption: "View of St Andrews from Gallowgate. St Andrew's Church dates from the C12 and is regarded as Newcastle's oldest. The city walls passed close by in the C13 and a surviving short section can be seen at the base of the gable end on the left. During the civil war siege of the city, a cannon was placed on the church tower, to defend this section of the walls."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Graham, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 November 2018 by Robert Graham [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6001138] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - west view

Source caption: "The Church of Saint Andrew in Newgate Street [...] The chancel arch and lower part of tower and arcades date from the twelfth century but the church is mainly of thirteenth and fourteenth century construction. The porch was re-fronted in 1726. Other restoration work was undertaken in 1866."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of Saint Andrew in Newgate Street [...] The chancel arch and lower part of tower and arcades date from the twelfth century but the church is mainly of thirteenth and fourteenth century construction. The porch was re-fronted in 1726. Other restoration work was undertaken in 1866."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2016 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4884113] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3741212] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - west side - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3741214] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737143] [accessed 16 July 2019] FONT COVER digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737153] [accessed 16 July 2
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view of font and cover - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737141] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of font and cover in context

the ample space beneath the tower has been successfully fashioned as baptistery
Scene Description: the ample space beneath the tower has been successfully fashioned as baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737137] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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view of font cover

Source caption: "The font cover is mediaeval, of about 1500 AD. It would originally have been painted in bright colours. It survived the destruction of the original stone font by the invading Scots in the 1640s by being hidden in a vault in the churchyard. There is a similar mediaeval font cover in the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas"
Scene Description: Source caption: "The font cover is mediaeval, of about 1500 AD. It would originally have been painted in bright colours. It survived the destruction of the original stone font by the invading Scots in the 1640s by being hidden in a vault in the churchyard. There is a similar mediaeval font cover in the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Quinn, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3737153] [accessed 16 July 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 05480NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Newgate St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5SS, UK -- Tel.: +44 191 222 0259
Country Name: England
Location: Tyne and Wear, North East
Directions to Site: The church is located off (S) Gallowgate, on an unnamed road off Newgate St, N of Chinatown and E of Leazes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Historical Region: formerly Northumberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery fashioned beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; but present building chiefly 13th and 14thC with later modifications
Font Notes:
No individual antry found for Newcastle in the Domesday survey. Murray (1873) reports "a fine Dec[orated] font-cover" in this church. Listed in Bond (1908) as having a font cover probably of the early 16th century; the balance weight is reported in the same source as resembling an ordinary clock-weight. Font cover noted in Long (1923). The cover, too, is noted in Pevsner (1957): "C15; of the same type as the font cover of the cathedral, but in the upper stage with specially large, eight-light 'windows' with Perp[endicular] panel tracery." The cover is dated in Betjeman (1958) to the 15th century, unpainted. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ2454564412] notes: "Parish church. C12 chancel arch and lower part of tower and arcades; C13 chancel and upper part of tower, and north transept; C14 north chapel. Early C14 south-west porch refronted 1726. C19 restorations and addition of south transept. [...] Tower baptistry has restored font of pedestal and bowl type, with tall Decorated cover."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.973667, -1.618864
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 58′ 25.2″ N, 1° 37′ 7.91″ W
UTM: 30U 588404 6092734

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th - 16th century (?)
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 65
Murray, John (the firm), A handbook for travellers in Durham and Northumberland, London: John Murray ; printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1873
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957