Singe crystals of a new high-temperature polymorph of Na 2 Ca 6 Si 4 O 15 have been obtained from solid state reactions performed at 1300°C. The basic crystallographic data of this so-called β-phase at ambient conditions are as follows: space group P1c1, a = 9.0112(5) Å, b = 7.3171(5) Å, c = 10.9723(6) Å, β = 107.720(14)°, V = 689.14(7) Å 3 , Z = 2. The crystals showed twinning by reticular merohedry (mimicking an orthorhombic C-centred unit cell) which was accounted for during data processing and structure solution. Structure determination was accomplished by direct methods. Least-squares refinements resulted in a residual of R(|F|) = 0.043 for 5811 observed reflections with I > 2σ(I). From a structural point of view β-Na 2 Ca 6 Si 4 O 15 can be attributed to the group of mixed-anion silicates containing [Si 2 O 7 ]-dimers as well as isolated [SiO 4 ]-tetrahedra in the ratio 1:2, i.e. more precisely the formula can be written as Na 2 Ca 6 [SiO 4 ] 2 [Si 2 O 7 ]. The tetrahedral groups are arranged in layers parallel to (100). Sodium and calcium cations are located between the silicate anions for charge compensation and are coordinated by six to eight nearest oxygen ligands. Alternatively, the structure can be described as a mixed tetrahedral-octahedral framework based on kröhnkite-type [Ca(SiO 4 ) 2 O 2 ]-chains in which the CaO 6 -octahedra are corner-linked to bridging SiO 4 -tetrahedra. The infinite chains are running parallel to [001] and are concentrated in layers parallel to (010). Adjacent layers are shifted relative to each other by an amount of +δ or −δ along a*. Consequently, a … ABABAB… stacking sequence is created. A detailed comparison with related structures such as α-Na 2 Ca 6 Si 4 O 15 and other A 2 B 6 Si 4 O 15 representatives including topological as well as group theoretical aspects is presented. There are strong indications that monoclinic Na 2 Ca 3 Si 2 O 8 mentioned in earlier studies is actually misinterpreted β-Na 2 Ca 6 Si 4 O 15 . In addition to the detailed crystallographic analysis of the previously unknown compound our results will also help to improve the interpretation of the phase relationships between the compounds in the ternary system Na 2 O-CaO-SiO 2 which are of interest for several applications related to the field of applied mineralogy and materials science.