St Andrew's Church, Roker

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St Andrew's, Roker
54°55′23″N 1°22′01″W / 54.923°N 1.367°W / 54.923; -1.367
Location	Roker, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	Saint Andrew
Associated people	John Priestman
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I listed building
Designated	1950
Architect(s)	Edward Schroeder Prior
Years built	1907
Administration
Diocese	Durham
Parish	Monkwearmouth
Clergy
Priest(s)	The Revd Richard Bradshaw

St Andrew's, Roker (1905–7), is a Church of England parish church in Sunderland, England. It is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century^{[citation needed]} and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior. The design of St Andrew's drew together many of the strings of Prior's philosophy and approach to design and building. Three years before commencing St Andrew's, Prior had written that the architect's first purpose was to provide;

"a dignified distinct building dedicated to the service of the Church. Church architecture, least of all, has been able to go beyond the trivial efforts of traditional picturesqueness; least of all our building it has been monumental".

At St Andrew's, Prior achieved a monumental church free from style. His experiments in structure, concern for materials and means of building reached their apogee at St Andrew's. The church was listed Grade I in 1950.^[1]