St Andrew's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne is a

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parish church in the

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Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is ...

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastl ...

, England.

History

The church dates from the 12th century, but is mainly of 13th and 14th century construction. The porch was re-fronted in 1726. Other restoration work was undertaken in 1866 by Fowler. New Gate, Newcastle, 1813

A large section of the medieval

Newcastle town wall The Newcastle town wall is a medieval defensive wall, and Scheduled Ancient Monument, in Newcastle upon Tyne, northern England. It was built during the 13th and 14th centuries, and helped protect the town from attack and occupation during time ...

still survives immediately to the north of the church, and the imposing

New Gate The New Gate ( ar, باب الجديد ''Bāb ij-Jdïd'') ( he, השער החדש ''HaSha'ar HeChadash'') is the newest of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in 1889 to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and th ...

in the city wall stood close by to the east until its demolition in 1823. Newgate Street to which it gave its name still runs past the east end of the church.

Burials

*The Newcastle-born portrait painter William Bell was buried at the church in June 1794. *The Newcastle-born composer

Charles Avison Charles Avison (; 16 February 1709 (baptised)9 or 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church in Newcastle and at St. Nicholas's Church (later Newcas ...

was buried by the north porch in 1795.

Organ

The earliest records of organs are from 1783 when an organ was installed by Donaldson. Subsequent restorations have been carried out by Gray, Nicholson, Binns and

Harrison and Harrison Harrison & Harrison Ltd is a British company that makes and restores pipe organs, based in Durham and established in Rochdale in 1861. It is well known for its work on instruments such as King's College, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, and the ...

. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

Organists

Thomas Hawdon Thomas Hawdon (ca.1765 – 24 November 1793) was an organist, instrumentalist, impresario and teacher based in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Life He was the son of organist Matthias Hawdon. He married Sarah Webster in Ma ...

1783 *George Barron 1783 - 1787 *George Carr 1787 - 1790 *Thomas Wright 1790 - 1796 *Henry Munro (or Monro) 1796 - 1819 *

James Stimpson James Stimpson (29 February 1820 – 4 October 1886) was a British cathedral organist and Birmingham City Organist. Early life He was born in Lincoln, England, on 29 February 1820, the son of William Stimpson and Rebecca Dannett. William was la ...

1836 - 1841 *

Samuel Reay Samuel Reay (17 March 1828 – 21 July 1905) was an organist and composer based in England. Life He was born on 17 March 1828, the son of George Agnew Reay, organist of Hexham Abbey, and Eleanor Spraggon. His father moved to Ryton on Tyne and ...

1841 - 1845 *J.S. Liddle ca. 1852 *Mr. Wish 1864 - ???? *

Thomas Albion Alderson Thomas Albion Alderson (13 November 1843 – 5 February 1902) was an organist and composer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Life He married Elizabeth Mary Eltringham (26 April 1843 - February 1912) on 24 June 1867 in Holy Trinity Church, South Sh ...

1867 - 1902 *Harold Oswald ca. 1916

Bells

In the tower hangs six bells all cast by

Mears and Stainbank The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was a business in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the time of the closure of its Whitechapel premises, it was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The bell foundry primarily made church bells a ...

in 1966. The largest weighs 16.5 cwt or 844kg.

References

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