Parish Notes Northumberland
[Population 1911: 7,039]
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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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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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