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).
A functional design of the 1950s, built as a parish hall and serving a post-war housing estate. The church was built... Read More
An attractive, well-detailed design of the 1950s, sensitively reordered in the 1990s. The church was built in... Read More
A large town church of the 1880s by Dunn, Hansom & Dunn, extended in 1909. From 1900 the parish was served by the... Read More
A plain brick and portal-framed church of the 1950s, designed by a local firm. On 8 April 1926 a chapel-of-ease to... Read More
A well-detailed but routine Gothic Revival design of the early twentieth century. The building was never completed but... Read More
An early twentieth-century church in Romanesque basilican style, notable above all for the early use of moulded... Read More
The mother church of Sunderland and the first Gothic Revival Church to be built in the town (now city). It is an... Read More
A long, low plain brick Gothic design, with some domestic Tudor detailing, built with the adjoining presbytery from... Read More
Built into a sloping site, the church was originally built as a parish hall to serve a separate church which in the... Read More
A building evocative of the early nineteenth century with its decorated polygonal sanctuary embedded into the old hall... Read More
A modest mid-Victorian Gothic Revival church in a simple Early English style. It was evidently built (in two stages)... Read More
A simple brick mission church of 1864 in lancet Gothic style, occupying a prominent position in the Trimdon... Read More
