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13238


Newcastle


RC Cathedral of St. Mary, grave of James Worswick


Newcastle


NZ26SW


Religious Ritual and Funerary


Burial Vault


Burial Vault


POST MEDIEVAL


Victorian 1837 to 1901


Structure


James Worswick (1771-1843) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was born in Lancaster and was the son of a banker. He trained for the priesthood in France, escaping back to England during the Revolution of 1789. He continued his training at Crook Hall. He was appointed priest to the secular mission and worked from an old house in Bell's Court off Newgate Street in Newcastle. He acquired a house in Pilgrim Street and built a brick church in the garden. By the late 1830s, the church was too small. In 1842 he acquired a triangular plot of land in Clayton Street West on which to build a large Roman Catholic church, later to became St. Mary's Cathedral. The church opened a year after James Worswick's death. Worswick Street, on which St. Andrew's RC Church stands, was named after him. He lies in a vault in the nave. The brass cross from the vault has been moved into the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.


424470


563900


NZ424470563900



Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, pages 122-123

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