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• The Parish of St Andrew consisted of the townships of Fenham, Jesmond and St Andrew. The last of these was part of the town and county of Newcastle, and all are now within the the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It also included the parochial chapelry of Cramlington, but this was, in most respects, an independent parish.
  
  St Andrew's Church, Newgate Street was built in the twelfth century but has been extensively altered on several occasions. During the Civil War in the 1640s, a gun was mounted on the church tower. This itself probably damaged the structure as well as making the church a target for the opposing forces. The church is situated in a churchyard with tall trees, giving it an almost rural appearance.
  
  
• St Peter's, Oxford Street (junction with Ellison Place) was built in 1843 as a chapel of ease to St Andrew's, and became a separate ecclesiastical district in 1844. It was in the Gothic style, from a design by John Dobson, and could accommodate 1,134 people. The church was demolished around 1933.
  
  
• Clayton Memorial Church (Jesmond Parish Church), Eskdale Terrace, was built in 1861 in memory of Richard Clayton (1802-1856), a leading evangelical preacher. A planned spire was never in fact built. The church is now adjacent to a busy dual-level road.
  
  
• St Thomas the Martyr, Barras Bridge, is a "Peculiar" - a church without a parish. It was built in 1830 by the Trustees of Saint Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Hospitals to replace the medieval Bridge-end Chapel, dedicated to St Thomas a Becket, which was demolished because it restricted access to the (old) Tyne Bridge. The church has a Master who was, until recently, Chaplain to those hospitals; now he is Anglican Chaplain to Newcastle University.
  
  
• The Ancestral Indexes website provides information about Newcastle, St Andrew, Newcastle, St Barnabas, Newcastle, St Luke, Newcastle, St Peter, Jesmond Parish Church, Jesmond, St George and Jesmond, St Hilda. There is also information on Newcastle, St Thomas under the headings Church, Monumental Inscriptions and The Parish Chest.