St Teresa of the Infant Jesus

About St Teresa of the Infant Jesus

St Teresa of the Infant Jesus is the Roman Catholic church for Heaton, part of the Parish of Christ the King, which serves the East End communities of Heaton, Byker and Walker within the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. The Catholic presence on the site dates to the interwar years: a presbytery was bought in Simonside Terrace in 1927, Mass was said locally, and a small church known as the 'tin hut' was built on Heaton Road, with a presbytery added beside it in 1932. The parish takes its name from St Thérèse of Lisieux, the Carmelite saint known as the Little Flower.

The present church, designed by David Brown, was built in 1971-72 and consecrated by Bishop Lindsay in December 1971. It is an unusual octagonal building sensitively set on the edge of Jesmond Dene, its star-like roof rising in eight steep pitches to a tall fleche, with triangular gables filled by vertical glass panels except at the projecting entrance porch and the sanctuary. It remains an active place of worship offering regular Mass and the sacraments for the local Catholic community.

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