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Parish Notes Northumberland

Newcastle St Peter

[Population 1911: 2,238]

Church

Church: Newcaste St Peter. Consecrated: 1843. Address: Ocford Street. Accommodation: 1,130. Services: 8, 10-45, 3, 7. Vicar: Rev. John Wilkinson, St Peter's Vicarage. Patron: Bishop of Newcastle. [NEYB (1893) p.80]

St. Peter's Church, Oxford-street, was erected in 1843, as a chapel of ease to St. Andrew's. It is in the Gothic style, from a design by Mr. Dobson, and is capable of accomodating 1,131 persons. The chancel is ornamented with beautiful stained glass windows, and a painting of the Crucifixion, by Reed. It was formed into a separate ecclesiastical district in 1844. The patronage of this church is vested in the crown and Bishop of Durham alternatively. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 948.]

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