Gateshead St Helen

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Gateshead St Helen

[Population 1911: 4,091]

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ST. HELEN'S ecclesiastical parish, formed July 28, 1876, from the parishes of Gateshead Fell, St. Mary's, Gateshead, and Bensham; the church, which stands in an excellent position, overlooking the Ravensworth estates, was erected in 1876, from designs by Mr. John Wardle, architect, of Newcastle, at a cost of £13,000, defrayed by the late Edward Joicey esq. J.P. and is a cruciform building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, organ chamber, vestry, choir vestry at the north-west end of the nave, and a tower with spire at the south-west angle; there are eight stained windows, including memorials to Edward Joicey, Dr. Simons, first vicar of the parish , and Mr. and Mrs. Leathart, of Brackendene: there is also a window to the memory of the men who fell in the Great War: the pulpit and font are handsomely carved in Durham stone, and there is a fine brass eagle lectern; the organ cost over £1,000: the church affords 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1876. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £309, with residence, in the gift of Edward Joicey esq. D.L., J.P. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Patterson M.A. of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, hon. canon of Durham and surrogate. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1925), page 217.]

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