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Christ Church, North Shields, Northumberland

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Brief description

A Grade II listed building, consecrated on 5th July 1668, it was the first church to be built in North Shields.

The tower was added in 1778 and in 1792-3 the rest of the church was rebuilt to a new design. Source: Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_North_Shields 2026:

"All of the nave's aisles are the same height as the rest of the church. The walls are plastered and the ceilings flat. The nave arcades have elliptical arches ("as shallow as Soane liked them") on thin Tuscan columns. The north and south galleries were removed during renovations to the church in 1951, but the west gallery, supported by cast iron columns, remains. In the gallery is the organ, previously in the chancel, now housed in a mahogany case including panels from the 1884 corvette HMS Calliope. In the south aisle is an eighteenth-century font.[2][5]

Inside the church at the east end are two stone grave covers, commemorating a former vicar, Stephen Dockwray, who died in 1681, and members of the Howlett family, who died in 1683 and 1694. Outside, south of the church tower, is the Grade II chest tomb of Edward Hodgson, a cordwainer and one of the founders of the church, who died in 1690.[7]

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