Shieldfield is a small area of Newcastle upon Tyne located just to the east of the City Centre, from which it is separated by the A167(M) Central Motorway. The Sandyford, Heaton, Byker and Manors areas of the city border Shieldfield to the North, East, South East and South.
During the English Civil War, King Charles I was permitted to play golf at Shieldfield whilst he was held prisoner at Newcastle by Parliamentarian forces.
The district largely consists of a council estate, with a few streets of Victorian terraced houses.
Over the last decade, developments have seen a number of Halls of Residence constructed to accommodate students from the nearby Northumbria University, and in 2007 Northumbria University opened its new state of the art 'City Campus East' on the site of the former Warner Brothers cinema.
Description courtesy of Shieldfield - Wikipedia.
12th September 2024
The Camden Street Slip.
The Camden Street Slip was a simple single entry sliproad junction from the local road network to the Central Motorway A167(M).
However, it was planned to be in this form only temporarily, with the eventual use planned to be as access from the unbuilt Central Motorway East Bypass onto the Central Motorway. In the event, it was used for around 40 years in its temporary form before closure.
28th May 2024
Christ Church.
Parish church. 1859-61 by A.B. Higham. Squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs.
SW tower; aisled nave, with first north bay containing canted porch; chancel with north vestry and south chapel. Decorated style. Shallow west porch has 3 gables over tall 2-centred-arched door and flanking triple niches. Similar double door in NW porch has crocketed gables and single niches; head-stopped drip moulds above moulded arches on shafts with flower capitals. 5-light west window.
Projecting tower has 3 and 2-light windows and large belfry openings. Angle buttresses with gargoyles crocketed gables. Stone broach spire. 2-light aisle windows have head-stopped drip moulds; 4-light east window. Cross finials to 3 steeply-pitched roofs.
Interior: painted plaster and painted ashlar; arch-braced roof with high collar and queen posts. Quatrefoil piers with crocket capitals to moulded 2-centred arches of nave and 2-bay chancel arcades; flower or head-stopped drip moulds. Tall chamfered tower arch contains door and boarded screen. 3 steps to chancel, one to sanctuary and one to altar; medieval-style floor tiles. Gothic-panelled wood reredos.
Late C19 brass plaque on north chancel wall to William Boyd, banker. Re-constructed medieval octagonal font. Hall breaks forward on ritual south, completing stepped frontage to green: one storey, porch and 3-sided end to street. Moulded surround to 2-centred-arched door set back at left; 3 windows of 2 pairs of Gothic lights under continuous drip mould; hipped roof. Curious papier-mache figure of Christ the King suspended over the chancel, early C20.
Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.
Queens Arms, Simpson Terrace.
The Queen’s Arms public house is an impressive corner building in a good location, and remains relatively unspoilt. The pub was established in 1855 by manager Joseph Smith of Manor Brewery. In 1882 it had been sold to John Graham, and remained in the family until 1939. By 1963 the building was the last remaining on Simpson Terrace. The pub is two storeys, and is rendered with an arched doorway.
Source: Sitelines
The Big River Bakery, Wreatham Place.
Big River Bakery is a small-batch bakery in Newcastle that makes slow ferment, handmade breads and baked goods with local ingredients. It also runs baking courses and contributes to the community with it's many social projects.
Check out their website Big River Bakery.
The Holy Biscuit.
Holy Biscuit is an arts organisation based in a specially refurbished Methodist Church.
Martin Luther Kirche, Clarence Street.
Falconar Street.
Falconar Street, Rock Terrace.
Boyd Street, Bermondsey Street.
21st March 2024
Falconar Street, Rock Terrace.
20th December 2023
Medburn House, Barker Street.
4th July 2023
Portland Road Works.
13th June 2023
iQ Student Accommodation, Stephenson Halls, Stoddart Street.
Stephenson Halls in Shieldfield is an impressive brick building is designed in an art deco style, and has concrete bands around its façade situated above and below the windows on each floor.
The number of storeys varies between three and six, most being of the latter, and in some parts the upper floors are stepped back. The halls, which surround a ‘U’ shaped central courtyard, were refurbished in 1993 by the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, and currently house 330 student accommodation rooms. Formerly the old British Paints Works.
20th April 2023
St Jude's Church, Stoddart Street.
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Parish church, now an architect's office. 1891 by A. B. Plummer. Dark red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and plinth; graduated Lakeland slate roof.
Aisled nave and chancel; east apse; south-east chapel with apse. Romanesque style. Triple-moulded surround to round-headed boarded double door with scrolled hinges in shallow projection in north aisle with gablets flanking overlapping stone coping. Stone surrounds to round-headed windows, under roll-moulded brick arches with projecting stone sills, in panels formed by plinth, pilasters and Lombard frieze of moulded brick.
Clerestory lunettes have varied glazing patterns. Apse has 5 high panels under 5 smaller panels, the 3 central main panels containing small round-headed windows with block-stopped drip moulds; upper panels have basket brickwork; top Lombard frieze to each panel and top dentilled cornice.
South-east chapel has similar windows. Blocked north door. Blank west front. Steeply-pitched roof, curved over apse. Gabled wood bellcote in clerestory above south door.
Interior: brick with white stone ashlar dressings; tongue-and-groove boarded dado; panelled ceiling. Stone sill band and frieze; flat pilaster bay divisions with brick entablature of quasi triglyphs and dentils continuous across apses at both ends. Dentilled top cornice. 5-bay round arcades with modified Corinthian capitals. Apse has top lunettes with basket brickwork. War memorial to dead of parish in first World War in west apse: marble slab on black mount.
Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.
Shield Street.
31st March 2023
Portland Road Student Housing.
Little or no thought from the builders, architects and planners, just designed to fleece the students. Years on from the construction of the flats footpaths remain unfinished and undistinguishable from roads. Horrific.
Portman House, Portland Road.
12th February 2023
Napier Street Play Area.
For some unknown reason a padlock appeared on the play area.
26th January 2023
Harrison Place Mural.
19th January 2023
Biscuit Factory Art Gallery, Stoddart Street.
This former biscuit factory in Shieldfield underwent a conversion into a art gallery and restaurant. This new status has brought attention to the industrial past of the Shieldfield area, which had many factories in the nineteenth century.
The three storey building is stone and brick. The heavily rusticated ground floor has six arched windows in sandstone surrounds, the windows of the upper floors are separated by brick pilasters. On the Stoddart Street frontage the central pilasters rise to support a pediment above a large single plate window.
Source: Sitelines.
iQ Student Accommodation, Stephenson Halls, Stoddart Street.
Portman Mews.
28th September 2022
Portman House, Portland Road.
17th August 2022
iQ Student Accommodation, Stephenson Halls, Stoddart Street.
9th August 2022
Queens Arms, Simpson Terrace.
10th July 2022
Napier Street.
28th June 2022
True Jesus Church, Boyd Street.
Portland Road.
Stoddart Street.
Site of a planned Lidl store.
17th March 2022
St Jude's Church, Stoddart Street.
Boyd Street.
True Jesus Church, Boyd Street.
Shieldfield Centre, Stoddart Street.
Stoddart Street.
10th November 2021
Harrogate House, Gosforth Street.
This 1897 beer house survived for over a century as a popular local public house, now shops.
The Harrogate House pub was bought by William Beading in 1925 for £4,000. In 1930 it was extended and sold to Robert Deuchar five years later for £10,000. The pub became fully licensed in 1950 and is now in the ownership of Newcastle Breweries. The attractive pillared ground floor front, which was restructured in 1948, is well designed. The upper floors of this three storey mostly brick pub possesses attractive stone window surrounds.
Source: Sitelines.
Martin Luther Kirche, Clarence Street.
13th October 2021
Falconar Street.
8th August 2021
Portland Green Student Village.
1st May 2021
Byron Street.
Chester Street/Sandyford Road.
Chester Street.
Christ Church.
Harrison Place.
Stoddart Street.
Queens Arms, Simpson Terrace.
Shield Street.
Shieldfield Green.
Wreatham Place Shops.
30th August 2020
Chester Crescent, Portland Road.
Portland Road.
St Jude's Church, Stoddart Street.
iQ Student Accommodation, Stephenson Halls, Stoddart Street.
Biscuit Factory Art Gallery, Stoddart Street.
Stoddart Street.
9th June 2019
Stoddart Street.
6th May 2014
Union Square construction, Stoddart Street.
Portland Green construction, Stoddart Street.
14th April 2014
Turner Court Student Accommodation, Stoddart Street.
Portland Green construction, Stoddart Street.
10th January 2014
Union Square construction, Stoddart Street.
15th October 2013
Union Square construction, Stoddart Street.
27th September 2013
Union Square construction, Stoddart Street.
6th September 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
9th July 2012
Barker House construction, Shield Street.
5th July 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
25th June 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
13th June 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
3rd June 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
27th May 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
30th April 2012
Barker House construction, Shield Street.
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
5th March 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
27th February 2012
Turner Court construction, Stoddart Street.
24th July 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
16th June 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
4th May 2011
Shield Street.
Demolition of what I think was sheltered accommodation for the elderly.
1st April 2011
Shield Street.
13th March 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
4th March 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
9th February 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
20th January 2011
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
17th December 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
16th November 2010
Queens Arms, Simpson Terrace.
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
20th October 2010
Barker Street.
The now closed Globe pub undergoing conversion to student accommodation.
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
8th September 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
25th August 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
23rd July 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
24th June 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
17th June 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
28th May 2010
Barker Street.
The now closed Globe pub.
Shieldfield Social Club.
Napier Street.
Camden Street.
20th May 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
20th April 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
22nd March 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
14th February 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
21st January 2010
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
17th December 2009
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
10th December 2009
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
3rd November 2009
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
September 200916th
Winn Studios construction, Stoddart Street.
10th March 2009
iQ Student Accommodation, Stoddart Street.
3rd February 2009
Falconar Street.
8th January 2009
Clarence House.
Stoddart Street.
Demolition of factories to make way for Winn Studios a new student accommodation block.
24th September 2008
Shield Street.
Harrogate House Public House.
Barker Street.
The now closed Globe pub.
22nd July 2008
Falconar Street.
9th July 2008
Shield Street.
9th July 2007
Wreatham Place Shops.
29th May 2006
Shieldfield Green.
Christ Church, Simpson Terrace.
25th May 2006
Biscuit Factory Art Gallery, Stoddart Street.
10th February 2006
Harrogate House Public House.
Queens Arms, Simpson Terrace.
The Globe Public House, Barker Street.
Shield Street Tower Blocks.
The Shieldfield Social Club, Shield Street.
Past and present religious sites in Shieldfield:
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Byron Street, United Methodist Church
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Shieldfield Methodist Church
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Sunday School
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Copland Place, United Free Methodist Chapel
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shieldfield Green, Christ Church and hall
Past and present industrial sites in Shieldfield:
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, New Bridge Street Goods Station
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Chance Pit
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Engine Pit
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Haugh Pit
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Brickfield
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, windmill
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Electric Supply Works and Shieldfield, Electric Supply Works, reservoirs
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Portland Road, J.H. Holmes' Works
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, ropery
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Red Barns
Past and present public houses/breweries in Shieldfield:
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Wesley Street, Shieldfield Brewery
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Simpson Terrace, Queen's Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shield Street, Shieldfield Inn
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Gosforth Street, Royal Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Gosforth Street, Golden Otter Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Ridley Street, Tweedmouth Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Sun Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Carlton Terrace, Volunteer Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Gladstone Terrace, Gladstone Hotel
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shield Street, Camden House Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shield Street, Yeomanry Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Wesley Street, Brewer's Arms
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Pandon Dene, Cricketers' Inn
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Morrison Street, Rosedale Hotel
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shield Street, Blue Bell Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Ingham Place, Tunnel Public House (Ingham Hotel)
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Portland Road, Newfield House Pub (City Arms)
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Clarence Hotel
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Albert Street, Albert Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Copland Terrace, General Wolfe Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shieldfield Lane, Stepney Public House/Hotel
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Byron Street, Prince of Wales Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shield Street, Chester Hotel Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Wesley Street, Globe Inn
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Gosforth Street, Gosforth Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Ridley Arms Public House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Hewgill Terrace, Inham Arms Pub (Melbourne)
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Henry Street, Alexandra Inn
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Simpson Terrace, Red Lion Public House
Historical interest in Shieldfield:
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shieldfield House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, New Bridge Street, well
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Byron Street, school
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, New Bridge Street, Ridley Villas
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, New Bridge Street, 91 Ridley Villas
- Sitelines - Shieldfield Green
- Sitelines - Shieldfield, Shieldfield Green, No. 23, King Charles I House
- Sitelines - Shieldfield fort
See my other photos around Shieldfield:
8 comments:
the globe will b or is now student residence as is the other pub across the road, cant remember its name, had a fire.
the shieldfield inn oppersite thee
club caught fire mysteriously
I'm looking for a photo of the Sheildfield Inn for my uncle who actually lived in the pub as a child
Sorry, can't help you there mate.
I have only photos of all the rest of the pubs for some reason. Maybe it was knocked down before I started photographing the place.
Maybe a reader may be able to help you out.
photos of Shielfield inn can be found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/sets/72157623356390074/
Fuzz. I remember hanging around with a lad who lived there. About 76ish.
When was your Uncle there and what was his name? Cant remember this lads name but him myself (Peter) and Rob (aka Geordie)used to be a little crowd.
hi anon I think I am that Geordie you are on about I remember peter and a few others gary , dave , joe etc
hi fuzz I think maybe the lad who lived in the sheildfield pub was billy I know his full name but don't want to put it on here maybe this guy is your uncle ?
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