


The Church
St. Stephen's Church is situated in Mile-end Road. It was erected in
1846, at a cost of £2,500., raised by subscription, aided by a
government grant, from a plan by Mr. Salvin, of London, and was
consecrated on the 11th of October in that year. It is a neat
building, in the early English style, consisting of nave, chancel,
aisles, and neat tower and spire
St. Stephen’s was split off from St. Hilda’s in 1846, but the burial
ground did not open until August 1848. St. Stephen’s was known as
the “pilot’s church” because it covered the area along the Tyne
riverside, including Jarrow Slake, Harton, Mill Dam, Temple Town,
Tyne Dock, and Westoe. Lots of sailors drowned or died from
accidents while in port, many from far-off places.
Plague victims
were buried near the Reay Street end (this now forms part of
the school play area. See the map below for the location.

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WW2
Thursday the 2nd of October was a busy night of raids by German
bombers. The last bomb of the evening fell in St Stephen's
Churchyard, immediately behind Military Road and near a large block
of flats, a number of graves were disturbed and property damaged but
there were no casualties. However during wholesale street clearances
during the 1960s, it was decreed that the cemetery would be
cleared and laid out as a rest garden. It isn't known what
happened to the gravestones or how the remaining stones were
chosen to survive.
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Open
the photograph album left to view many more
pictures of the cemetery, unusual stones and
epitaphs. I will add more photographs as I visit
this cemetery. If you would like to add your own,
please contact me, and if they are suitable, I
will add them, with an acknowledgement. There a
several pages in this album.
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Gravestone/Memorial/Monument Photographs
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Stamp |
Heslop |
Bone
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Mensforth/Hark us |
Berry |
Mensforth |
Wailes |
Davison |
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CWGC Headstones
The small
memorial garden contains eleven Commonwealth War Grave
stones
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Unmarked Graves
Names underlined are have their own page.
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Israel Venus |
Clara Taws |
Thomas Blumer |
Dorothy
'Dolly' Peel |
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21 Apr 1902
Jane Scott, of 34 Charlotte Street, age: 84.
Buried
without the rites of the church of England
20 May
1916 John Abernethy, of 48 George Scott Street, age: 88
06 Jun
1922 James Stephenson, of 9 Edith Street, age: 25,
drowned at Sea 31st March 1922
25 Aug
1934 George Park Christie, of 169 Harton Lane, age: 74
(Note: 169 Harton Lane was the address of the Harton
Workhouse)
18 May
1946 John William Sullivan, of 11 Thames Lane, age: 71,
Roman Catholic
William Bedlington. d1885. A Tyne Pilot. of 71 Shadwell
St, age 41.
Found
dead on Pilot Stairs. He died from double pneumonia and
exhaustion. |
Ann Golightly was born about 1822 in South
Shields, and, died on 7 Jan 1823 in Shadwell St,
aged about 1, and was buried on 9 Jan 1823
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