Newcastle St Andrew

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Newcastle St Andrew

[Population 1911: 8,042 incl. 590 persons enumerated in the Royal Victoria Infirmary, and 902 in part of the Military Barracks]

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Church: Newcastle St Andrew. Address: Newgate. Accommodation: 1,000. Services: 7-15, 8, 9-30, 10-45, 3-30, 7. Vicar: Rev. J.M. Lister, 9 Sydenham Terrace. Curates: Rev. F. Stone, 2 Strawberry Place; Rev. W.G. Paddey, 8 St James's Street. Patron: Vicar of Newcastle. Missions: Leazes Lane; Lambton Place. [NEYB (1893) p.80]

St. Andrew's Church is situated on the west side of Newgate-street, and is traditionally asserted to be the oldest church in Newcastle; its erection being ascribed to David, the church and abbey building monarch of Scotland. Its style of architecture seems to have been originally Norman, but, as a whole, the building has been much modified by frequent alterations and repairs. There is a fine painting of the "Last Supper," by Giardino, in this church, which also possesses a splendid service of plate, and a fine organ, containing twenty-nine stops. St. Andrew's formerly possessed three chantries, which were dissolved at the suppresion of the religious houses. The parish register commences in 1597. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Newcastle. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 947.]

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