Jesmond Parish Church

Jesmond Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England situated in Brandling Village in the Jesmond suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The church's official name is the Clayton Memorial Church and is unusual among Anglican parish churches in not being named after either a saint who appears in the church's calendar or a person of the Trinity. This reflects the church's conservative Evangelical roots. HistoryThe church had a slightly unusual beginning. 1856 saw the death of the Revd Richard Clayton, Master of St Thomas' Church in Haymarket and a local Evangelical luminary. In his place the church authorities wished to appoint a high church successor who was out of sympathy with Clayton's Reformed Evangelical principles. A large number of the congregation of St Thomas's were deeply unhappy. A committee was formed with the intention of planting a new church nearby, which "will form a central point for the maintenance and promulgation of sound scriptural and evangelical truth in a large and populous town. " At the time, much of the land around the site was open fields; the building was designed by the architect John Dobson and consecrated in 1861. List of vicars1861-1882 Canon Berkeley Addison1882-1888 Canon Somerset Pennefather1889-1894 Theodore Charles Chapman1894-1897 Edwin Savage1898-1907 Canon Thomas Brocas Waters1907-1916 Canon James Inskip1916-1927 Canon George Oakley1927-1947 Canon George Goddard1947-1959 Harry Bates1960-1972 Roger Frith1973–present David Holloway

Jesmond Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England situated in Brandling Village in the Jesmond suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The church's official name is the Clayton Memorial Church and is unusual among Anglican parish churches in not being named after either a saint who appears in the church's calendar or a person of the Trinity. This reflects the church's conservative Evangelical roots. HistoryThe church had a slightly unusual beginning. 1856 saw the death of the Revd Richard Clayton, Master of St Thomas' Church in Haymarket and a local Evangelical luminary. In his place the church authorities wished to appoint a high church successor who was out of sympathy with Clayton's Reformed Evangelical principles. A large number of the congregation of St Thomas's were deeply unhappy. A committee was formed with the intention of planting a new church nearby, which "will form a central point for the maintenance and promulgation of sound scriptural and evangelical truth in a large and populous town. " At the time, much of the land around the site was open fields; the building was designed by the architect John Dobson and consecrated in 1861. List of vicars1861-1882 Canon Berkeley Addison1882-1888 Canon Somerset Pennefather1889-1894 Theodore Charles Chapman1894-1897 Edwin Savage1898-1907 Canon Thomas Brocas Waters1907-1916 Canon James Inskip1916-1927 Canon George Oakley1927-1947 Canon George Goddard1947-1959 Harry Bates1960-1972 Roger Frith1973–present David Holloway