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Newcastle and Gateshead text p103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 8/8/09 6:3 Walk 2. Quayside and East Quayside This walk follows Quayside downstream, e from Sandhill (see Walk 1, p. 104), with slight digressions away from the river. While the immediate post-war period saw great changes in the town centre, the riverside remained unaltered until Byker was redeveloped in the 1970s (see p. 232). Quayside regeneration gathered pace under the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation from 1987 to 1998 and continues as buildings in the Ouseburn valley are cleared or restored. These former com- mercial and industrial areas have been enriched by sculpture and designed streetscapes, fitting settings for the present mix of business, residential and leisure uses. t c u TOWER STREET A 167(M) d ia Salv V Me y MELBOURNE STREET a w il a R Garth Heads Corner Tower Wallknoll Keelmen’s Tower Hospital CITY ROAD CROFT STAIRS MANO RCHA RE Sallyport Crescent COWG MILK A Trinity Gardens MARKET TE Sandga House Trinity House BROAD All Saints’ K Church AN Live SampleG B pagesTheatre only DO CHARE Law Courts PILGRIM ST Blue Anchor Court TRINITY Princes CHARE NotAKENSIDE HILLfor resale THES Buildings Baltic Chambers IDE T KING ST PLUMMER CHARE Coronation Buildings QUEEN S LOMBARDExchange QUAYSIDE Phoenix Buildings Custom House House TYNE BRIDGE Three Indian Kings House ST Broad Garth House LL Mercantile Buildings DHI N SA Sage Music Centre Job:Newcastle and Gateshead text p120 09-8-5 pp15 Newcastle and Gateshead text p103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 8/8/09 6:3 Quayside and to the North The dramatic oversail of the Tyne Bridge (p. 97) emphasizes the topography of this riverside area, the flat valley bottom enclosed by steep banks. Historically, Quayside was the street running e from Sandhill to Sandgate, with chares (alleys) between the houses for access to the long burgage plots; steps at the heads of some chares led to the higher ground. The land was reclaimed from the river in the c14, timber piers becoming chares when houses were built between them. The Town Quay and a stretch of Town Wall lay e of the medieval bridge; the street called Quayside ran behind the wall (removed 1763), with houses on its n side. Quay wall and bollards remain, but no longer do hundreds of ships tie up here, nor porters carry cargoes to and fro.* *As the use has changed, so has the sense of what the name means, with ‘Quayside’ now often used for anywhere near the river, although it is strictly this block between Sandhill and Sandgate. 83. Walk 2 St Ann’s Church Salvation Army Men's Hostel CITY ROAD continuing to p.132 ST ANN’S STREET ’s Rotterdam House l Keel Row THE SWIRLE House QUAYSIDE DGATE SAN St Ann’s Wharf Quayside House LK N E RKET Pitcher & Piano T Y Sandgate R House Malmaison V E (CWS warehouse) R I Gateshead MillenniumSample Bridge pages only Not for resaleBaltic Art Centre s N SOUTH SHORE ROAD MILL ROAD re 0 100 200 metres 0 100 200 yards Job:Newcastle and Gateshead text p121 09-8-5 pp15 Newcastle and Gateshead text p103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 8/6/09 2:4 In 1854 blazing débris from a fire in Gateshead destroyed many Quayside buildings and six chares. The Town Council laid out new wide streets (Queen Street, Lombard Street, King Street), to a plan of John Dobson’s, from a full scheme which was not otherwise adopted; the buildings were by William Parnell. Only the ne part of Sandhill was affected, but after the Swing Bridge opened in 1876 stone-built banks and shipping and insurance offices replaced timber-framed and brick houses along the e side; these are now bars and restaurants. From the s corner: No. 13, 1879 by Edward Shewbrooks, free Baroque; No. 15, 1880–1 by John Burnup & Sons for Lambton & Co.’s bank, ground floor remod- elled 1909 by Waller & Sons, Gloucester, for Lloyds Bank; No. 17 of 1885 by A. B. Gibson, Renaissance, with superimposed Corinthian columns and lozenge decoration. Then Parnell’s classical work on the curve to Queen Street: No. 18 for the Royal Insurance Co., 1863, now flats and called Phoenix House; company arms over the door, Tuscan pilasters on the ground floor, giant Corinthian above, round-arched on the top floor. The block between Queen Street and Akenside Hill, oversailed by Tyne Bridge, is Parnell’s Princes Buildings, c. 1863. On Queen Street s side beyond, Parnell’s Exchange Buildings, Italianate offices of c. 1861–2, filling the rectangle of new streets; its other fronts on Lombard Street, King Street and Quayside. Central courtyard for natural light, as at Parnell’s St Nicholas Buildings (p. 117). Converted to a hotel etc., c. 2001. On the n side of Queen Street, e of the steps to All Saints (p. 129), No. 29, 1871 by Matthew Thompson, with Corinthian detail. At the e end of the street is Blue Anchor Court, 1987, the first post-1945 housing in the Quayside area, infill by the Napper Collerton Partnership. Down King Street to No. 25, 1875 by R. J. Johnson for the Tyne Steam Shipping Co., with fine mouldings and a hierarchy of orders, Tuscan, Ionic (twice) and Corinthian, with pulvinated friezes, leaded lights in stone- mullioned windows, and an old noticeboard naming shipping destinations. The slender front to Quayside keeps the pre-1854 plan, with the very narrow Plummer Chare to the e. Next Nos. 15–23 Quayside, Mercantile Buildings, 1883 by J. C. Parsons, also with entab- latures above each floor, and wreath-carved pediments over paired central windows; less ornate is Nos. 25–27, Broad Garth House, 1869 by John Wardle Jun.. Three Indian Kings House, 1987 by Napper Collerton Partnership, is stone-clad with three full-height oriel windows. Custom House EntrySamplepasses pagesunder No. only 39, the former Custom House [84], now barristers’ chambers. After demolition of the Quayside stretch of Town Wall in 1763, Newcastle’s Customs moved here from near Sandhill in 1766Not. Its forbrick resale was re-fronted in Palladian ashlar by Sydney Smirke in 1833, with a rusticated ground floor, first-floor windows with pedimented surrounds, smaller second-floor windows, den- til cornice and blocked parapet; fine royal arms over the shallow porch. Then Trinity Chare, leading to Trinity House (see p. 124). At the river’s edge here, the great engineering work of the c19 Quay, with bollards for 122 Central Newcastle and Gateshead Job:Newcastle and Gateshead text p122 09-8-5 pp15 text P103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 11/24/10 9:29 PM Page 123 84. Former Custom House, Quayside, 1766; front by Sydney Smirke, 1833 moorings, and fine views of the bridges, the Gateshead riverside, and ahead, the first glimpse of the Byker Estate on its steep site. Beyond, a development is proposed by Ryder; then No. 63, a plain house, c. 1800 (now a bar). No. 65 is Coronation Buildings, former shipping offices of 1902, the rear demolished. Baltic Chambers, c. 1900, extended 1991 by its owner Ralph Tarr with Ryder Nicklin, with a corner turret to Broad Chare. Napper Collerton’s Law Courts of 1986–90 on the e corner was the first major building of the Quayside revival. A new material for the riverside, red sandstone from Dumfriesshire. Full-height piers support a high gallery; brick sides and rear, with nautical portholes. Broad Chare was theSample only chare pageswide enough only for a cart: even wider now, incorporating Spicer Chare, e. On the left, brick former ware- houses of the mid c19: Nos. 11–21, then three belonging to the Trinity House of Newcastle uponNot Tyne, for now resale holding Live Theatre (conversion 1982–6 by Michael Drage, extended 1997 and 2007), with windows in the loading bays. Three houses with nine small gables here, built by Trinity House c. 1678, were rebuilt in 1841 by a Mr Oliver – either Andrew or Thomas; plans were approved and tenders considered by Dobson, the architect adviser to Trinity House. Walk 2. Quayside and East Quayside 123 Job:首府 text P123 101124 PP48 Newcastle and Gateshead text p103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 8/6/09 2:4 85. Trinity House, Broad Chare, medieval to C19, entrance by John or William Stokoe, 1800, and Banqueting Hall, 1721, right Where the chare is pedestrianized, a gatehouse leads to the secluded court of Trinity House [85, 86], a complete change of building type and era. The medieval site, with a complex of buildings that began as a courtyard house, has been home to the Newcastle Company of Mariners since 1505. In that year they signed an agreement to build a chapel, meeting house and almshouses on the site ‘of old time called Dalton Place’, which they had acquired from ‘Rauff Hebburne squyer’. Further almshouses,Sample meeting pages rooms only and offices were added. The present buildings are a medieval house, the chapel, c18 meeting hall and almshouses, and c19 gatehouse, almshouses and office, some now leased out, all incorporatingNot for resaleparts of earlier structures, especially at ground level. A full analysis has yet to be made, but each new investigation adds to the jigsaw. The Tudor-style two-storey gatehouse on Broad Chare is dated 1841, and is by Oliver. To the right, the e wall of the chapel has old masonry, of varying sizes and golden hues, with a four-light window renewed in 124 Central Newcastle and Gateshead Job:Newcastle and Gateshead text p124 09-8-5 pp15 Newcastle and Gateshead text p103-230.qxd:Newcastle and Gateshead 8/6/09 2:4 1841.

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