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Choppington St Paul

[Population 1911: 7,039]

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Choppington St Paul. © 2000 NDFHS.


Church

A small unpretentious 'colliery church', it was built to serve the growing mining village of Choppington. Architecturally it is simple and uncluttered, set in a spacious churchyard containing some fine beech trees. The processional cross is in memory of those who lost their lives in the two Choppington pits - both closed in the early 1960s. The brass altar cross is of unusual design and of particularly fine workmanship. Once a colliery church, St Paul's now serves a parish of several large housing estates. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 19.]

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Monumental Inscriptions

Wooden cross in churchyard at Choppington St Paul. © 2000 NDFHS. All rights reserved.

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
of
JOSEPH MAUGHAN
craftsman
AT REST JANUARY 4TH 1936 AGED 83 YEARS
and

ELIZABETH HIS WIFE AT REST JULY 7TH 1936
Aged 77 Years

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