Parish Notes Northumberland

Tynemouth St Peter (Low Town)

[Population 1911: 4,557 inc. 296 persons enumerated on board the "Wellesley" Industrial School Ship for Boys]

Church

St. Peter's, or Low Town, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Oct. 30, 1860. The church, situated in Borough road, is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower at the south-west angle, and a bell turret containing one bell: it has 750 sittings. The register dates from the year 1861. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £50, gross yearly value £320, chiefly derived from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland K.G. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Philip Hughes Moore B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1890), pages 1032-33.]

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Topography

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History

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The Parish Chest

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Non-Parochial Records

Newcastle Courant 20/2/1874 On Saturday night, Mr Josiah Stonier, the housekeeper at the Custom House, New Quay, North Shields, died suddenly after a few days illness. Mr Stonier had been about 16 years in the employment of the customs authorities, and at the time of his decease was 48 years of age. Deceased leaves a wife and family.

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Monumental Inscriptions

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