The Diocese of Hexham was founded on 29 September 1850, becoming the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in 1861. Today it covers the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, and the part of Cleveland north of the River Tees. The cathedral is in Newcastle, and is dedicated to St Mary. 179 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2012).
An economical brick design of 1878-81 by Dunn & Hansom, with a contemporary presbytery. The church contains a... Read More
An early example of the use of moulded concrete blocks, used in this case to build a church in the Romanesque style... Read More
A 1972 purpose-built modest brick church that creates a pleasant worship space with some interesting and good quality... Read More
A 1935 design of loosely Art Deco character, and one of the first churches to be dedicated to St John Fisher after his... Read More
An inter-war brick church, quite cheap and small in scale and with some simple, but imaginatively treated,... Read More
A small post-war church with an attached parish hall. It is a simple round-arched design by Anthony J. Rossi, built... Read More
A design-and-build church of the early 1980s, with a wide, low interior.Shotton Colliery opened in 1840 but did... Read More
A good ‘chaste and correct’ Early English church and attached presbytery by George Goldie, set within a burial... Read More
A large conventional post-war church erected shortly after the Second Vatican Council. The church has been reordered... Read More
A plain interwar church with Romanesque details which has been extended and reordered over the years.The Catholic... Read More
A large and distinguished urban Gothic Revival church, despite the unfinished bell tower. The church contains stained... Read More
A plain inter-war church which was extended and re-orientated in 1982. It contains several pieces of sculpture by... Read More
