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Blyth St Cuthbert

[Population 1911: 8,292 incl. 324 persons enumerated on board vessels]

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Blyth St Cuthbert. © 2000 NDFHS.


Church

Church: Blyth St Cuthbert. Consecrated: 1885. Address: Plessy Road. Accommodation: 400. Services: 7-30, 8-30, 10-45, 6-15. Vicar: Rev. C.W. James. Curate: Rev. P.H.E. Wilder. Patron: Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart.. Mission: Newsham. [NEYB (1893) p.143]


The church is a Grade II* listed building well worth visiting. An appeal is currently underway to finance repairs to the east window.

A brass plate on the west wall of the nave records:

DEO GLORIA

THIS CHURCH WAS
CONSECRATED ON
NOVEMBER 5TH 1885 BY
ERNEST ROLAND 1ST BISHOP
OF NEWCASTLE

WILLIAM MADDISON, VICAR

WM WARD
W.R. SMITH
J. GRANTHAM
WARDENS

J. AITKEN
C. HUNTER
C. DOWNIE
J. HOPE
SIDESMEN W.S. HICKS, ARCHITECT.

The font cover has this dedication:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH GREY
WHO DIED JULY 5TH 1894
THIS FONT COVER
IS GIVEN BY
HER FRIENDS
S. CUTHERT'S CHURCH

Brass plate by the pulpit reads:

To the Glory of God
and in loving memory of the men of
BLYTH AND DISTRICT
who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1919.
This Peal of eight Bells
was placed in this tower by
Miss Elizabeth N. Thompson,
the cost being borne out of the estate
of her brother
FREDERICK JAMES THOMPSON
ONE OF THE FALLEN
Memoria in æternâ
Greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friends

On the sanctuary panelling on the south wall of the chancel is carved this dedication:

TO THE GLORY OF
GOD AND IN MEMORY
OF THE REV. WILLIAM
MADDISON
WHO WAS VICAR OF
THIS PARISH FROM
1882 TO 1888.

And on the sanctuary panelling on the north wall of the chancel another dedication is carved:

TO THE GLORY OF
GOD AND IN MEMORY
OF THE REV.
CHARLES
WOODHOUSE
JAMES
WHO WAS VICAR OF
THIS PARISH FROM
1888 TO 1905

A brass plate on a pillar in the south aisle reads:

To the Glory of God
and in
loving memory of
John Dent.
County Alderman & J.P.
who died 20th April
1907.
This screen was erected
by his children
14th February 1909.

A brass plate on the doors reads:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
ALFRED GANDON
DIED 12TH JULY 1979

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Monumental Inscriptions

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
WILLIAM RANSON SMITH
WHO DIED OCT. 15TH 1909
AGED 82 YEARS.
ALSO OF HIS WIFE
FANNY SMITH
WHO DIED MAY 15TH 1911
AGED 77 YEARS.
"Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die."

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