The church was built in the 1840s to a neo-Gothic design by architect August Welby Pugin, famous for his work on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. It was paid for by halfpenny donations from the poorest community of immigrants on Tyneside, and was enhanced in the following decades by bequests from the Dunn family [...]
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Cathedral Church of St Mary – Newcastle
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2015
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A Walk Along the Quayside
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 5th 2015
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Newcastle – Day Four
I awoke abruptly at 1am in the morning to the sound of what I soon realized was the fire alarm going off. We both leaped out of bed just as the alarm stopped ringing so I returned to bed and when I was satisfied it was a false alarm I went back to sleep. I [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2015
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Newcastle – Day Three
The five of us were able to sit at the same breakfast table that we had the previous morning. I opted for eggs Benedict but found that there was a little too much hollandaise sauce for my taste. One of the lifts was out of order, delaying progress to and from the hotel rooms to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2015
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!
St. Catherine of Sienna
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2015
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Newcastle – Day Two
Breakfast in the Vermont was as excellent as usual, although the arrangements had changed since our previous visits. There is still the buffet arrangement for cold breakfast items but all cooked food is prepared fresh to order. We were pleased to find there was the perfect table with five chairs so we were all able [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 31st 2015
