Parish Notes Northumberland
[Population 1911: 8,292 incl. 324 persons enumerated on board vessels]
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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:
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:
Brass plate by the pulpit reads:
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:
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:
LOVING MEMORY OF ALFRED GANDON DIED 12TH JULY 1979 |
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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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