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Description: | The oldest part of what is now Saint Edmund's Church on Gateshead High Street, was originally part of the Hospital of Saint Edmund, Bishop and Confessor. This was founded in about 1247 ‘for the spiritual refreshment of the soul’ by the Bishop of Durham, Nicholas de Farnham on the site of an even earlier hospital. Outside the chapel was a stone cross in the roadway, this marked the head of the town and was the scene in 1594 of the execution of John Ingram, a young Jesuit priest. The chapel fell into disrepair following the Reformation and was bought by Walter Riddell. In 1836, Cuthbert Ellison gave the ground and the building to the Rector of Gateshead and public subscriptions allowed the building to be repaired under the supervision of John Dobson. The building was re-opened as Holy Trinity in 1837. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Churches and Chapels Streets | Temporal: | name=Victorian; start=1837; end=1901; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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