Churches of Newcastle and North Tyneside

The city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the towns and villages of North Tyneside, including Wallsend, North Shields, Killingworth, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay, were important settlements in the medieval era but the shipping trade and growing industrialisation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the population in the area increase rapidly. Alongside its ancient churches, many more churches were built to support those communities, and today the churches of both boroughs act as significan...