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St John the Baptist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne

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is buried in the graveyard. Not far from the east window lies a stone slab, part of a table monument, its four supporting pillars lying half buried in the soil beneath it. The inscription on it reads as follows:
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steeple in Newcastle, and a benefactor to the town's churches. The current stone is a copy of the original, removed around 1861 during repairs, and now housed in the
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Part of the graveyard was built over in the 1960s for meeting rooms and a hall. As of 2010, there remained about ten gravestones. Two of these, that to Sarah and
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and windows with flattened arched tops. A stone in the south transept window commemorates Robert Rhodes, the builder of
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The old church of St. John is believed to date from c.1287. William Gray, a 16th century topographer and burgess of
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The church, surrounded by modern buildings on three sides, is modest, with a low square tower featuring small
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A history of Newcastle-on-Tyne from the earliest records to its formation as a city
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is a 13th-century church on the corner of Grainger Street and Westgate Road in
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and that to the artist Ralph Waters are listed Grade II.
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St John the Baptist is located in Tyne and Wear

54°58′12″N 1°36′56″W / 54.9701°N 1.6155°W / 54.9701; -1.6155
OS grid reference
NZ245639
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
Denomination
Anglican
Churchmanship
Traditional Catholic
St John the Baptist Church
Parish church
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
St John the Baptist
Grade I listed building
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
pinnacles
St. Nicholas' Cathedral's
castle
font
Jacobean
pulpit
chancel
anchorite
sacristy
rood
reredos

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