In 1848, 142 burials were recorded, in 1849, 150. 1850 saw 189 burials, with a further 178 in 1851 and 272 in 1852. In 1853, the year of the third and most serious cholera outbreak, 547 burials were recorded, falling to 169 in 1854. In September 1853, at the peak of the outbreak, 319 people were buried at St. Paul's churchyard, with 55 burials on September 20th alone. There are no burials records available for study after 1854. It is unclear whether the graveyard was closed or whether it passed out of Church of England administration. The last recorded burial in this graveyard is listed as number 2232, implying that a large number of burials may be present on this comparatively small site. During this period there were three serious outbreaks of cholera. The first lasted from December 1831 to March 1832. At first local church cemeteries were used for the dead, but after February 1832, Westgate Hill and Ballast Hills were used. This outbreak left 971 people infected and 306 dead. The second outbreak in 1849 left over 414 dead in Newcastle alone, and the third more serious outbreak in 1853 left over 1,500 dead, many of whom were residents in the west end. The burial records do imply that this cemetery was used as a burial ground for cholera victims at this time. The paths in the cemetery were altered by 1919. The church became a cinema in the 1930s, but the graveyard is still annotated on plans of 1956 as "existing cemetery". Newcastle City Council acquired the site from St Paul's Congregational Church in 1950. The gravestones appear to have been removed when the graveyard was tidied up for the festival of Britain in 1951 (some headstones are still propped up against the north wall of the graveyard). There are no records of a cemetery clearance, and it should therefore be assumed that the burials are still in-situ on the site. The stone dwarf walls around the cemetery still survive. A metal detector survey, test pit survey and watching brief were carried out in 2012.

The former chapel was constructed between 1838 and 1844. Oliver's map of 1844 and Tallis' map of 1851 show the chapel, associated cottage and grounds. The chapel and cemetery are also shown on the 1852 tithe award (DT 165 metres) for the parish of St John, Elswick, which lists the occupiers as the "Trustees of St Paul's Chapel". On the first edition Ordnance Survey it is described as St Paul's Chapel (Independent). Baptism (1841-50) and burial records (1841-1854) are held at the Northumberland Record Office (NRO EP/73/78) under the records for St John's Elswick, a Church of England parish. Deposited building plans of 1872 describe the chapel as a Congregational Church. Around 1932 the church was sold on and converted into the Gem Cinema. The date of demolition was 1967.

Nos. 149-157 Westgate Road and 35-39 St. James Boulevard (1-5 Blenheim Street). Built in the early to mid 19th century. Appears on the Ordnance Survey first edition as The Blenheim Tavern, with a passageway to the rear, Westgate Court. The pub was refurbished as the Carlisle Public House in 1866 and designed by John Johnsone. The building was a rare example of local polychromatic brickwork (light coloured brick with red brick bands and arches). It was derelict from the mid 1980s. Demolished in 2004 but recorded beforehand. The building was in very poor condition, with large parts of the roof and floors missing. Nevertheless a photographic record was taken of the exterior and interior.

A Congregational church was built on the corner of the newly formed Corporation Street and Bath Lane in 1860 for the preacher, doctor and educationalist John Hunter Rutherford. In 1939 it was replaced by the West End Congregational Church, Two Ball Lonnen. The building to the rear was Rutherford College Boys' School, built 1894. It later became the College of Arts and Techology before being demolished in 1987.

The situation in Newcastle from the end of the Roman period to the foundation of the new castle in 1080 is mysterious, since no archaeological evidence has yet been found for a Saxon settlement. There are two documentary references however, to a place called 'Moneccestre'. The association between Newcastle and an older site called Monkchester was made by the author of the 'Vita Oswini' in the 12th century. The author had been a monk at St. Albans, but wrote his book at Tynemouth. The book states that the army of William the Conqueror made camp at Monkchester on their return march southward from a campaign against the Scots in 1072. In 'History of the Church of Durham' Symeon of Durham mentions 'Munecaceastre' on the northern bank of the Tyne, called the 'City of Monks', which belonged to the monks of Durham, but which was under the jurisdiction of the earl of Northumbria. Symeon connects 'Munekeceastre' and Newcastle in 'History of the Kings'. Aldwin of Winchcombe and two monks of Evesham settled in Munekeceastre before being invited to resettle in Jarrow by Bishop Walcher in History of the Kings. Aldwin of Winchcombe and two monks of Evesham settled at Munekeceastre before resettling Jarrow in 1074. Like other "chester" place-names in Northumberland, Monkchester need imply no more than ruined defences, in this case perhaps of the Roman fort (HER 204), which was still visible in a degraded condition in the 8th century (Nolan et al, 2010). It may well be that Beresford is right when he says that the problem ceases to be baffling if we accept that the town came into being with the foundation of the new castle. Nevertheless this is still open to speculation. Earlier writers suggested that the settlement could have lain in other parts of the town. Gray favoured Pandon (HER 1390) as a possible site for a pre-Conquest settlement. Honeyman and others favoured the vicinity of St Andrew's. Honeyman (1941) argued the antiquity of St. Andrew's Church due to the presence of pre-Conquest sculpture and because of nine churches in Northumberland dedicated to St. Andrew, only one has no pre-Conquest evidence. Medieval topographical details in the area around St. Andrews which are suggestive of a village layout - the site of the White Cross (HER 230) and mention of nine tofts and a horsepool in a charter of Henry II, have given rise to speculation that this was the area of the Saxon settlement of Monkchester. Firm evidence is however lacking. Bourne also thought Monkchester was located at the north of Newgate Street and believed that the Hucksters' Booths (market stalls) there were established to serve the monks who lived nearby.

This land, part of Warden's Close, had previously been used for grazing. As early as 1815 it ceased to be used as grazing land because the smoke from the adjacent lead works (HER 6435) had "rendered the grass injurious to the health of the horses". So in 1824 much of the Close was let as a bowling green. By the 20th century the bowling green site had been taken over by college buildings (HER 6294). The bowling green was opened in May 1827. A tavern was built by the subscribers, where they held an annual dinner at the beginning of the season.

The tannery, with its tan pits, lime pits and splitting house is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition map. This was part of Locke and Blackett's site (see the lead works entry HER 6435). In 1803 Christopher Blackett assigned part of the site previously used as gardens and orchards to Joseph Arundale, skinner for use as a skinner's yard and a tan-yard. Joseph Arundale and Son occupied the tannery until at least 1838, and are described in trade directories of the period as "tanners, curriers, glue boilers, fellmongers and manufacturers of morocco and patent leather". By 1847/8 the tannery had been taken over by Pattinson & Son, who were still working in 1898 but appear to have left the site by the early 20th century.

In 1939 two narrow blocks of air-raid shelters were built against the eastern side of the bus depot and in the narrow space between the buildings and the town wall, presumably taking advantage of the balst protection offered by the medieval masonry. The shelters had 12" thick reinforced concrete walls and roof and external blast doors.

The King's Dikes between Newgate and Warden's Close were let to Christopher Barker, tanner in 1717 and then to his son Joseph Barker in 1729. In 1730 the open areas were occupied as gardens by a Mrs Barker and a Mr Robinson. By 1734 John Clayton, merchant, had bought Barker's right in the ground. On his death the lease passed to his brother Snow Clayton. The dikes were cultivated albeit unsuccessfully. In 1792 John Soulsby assigned part of the Dykes for construction of a Poor House, but the scheme was abandoned. The rest of the lease was assigned to Christopher Blackett, a Newcastle coal and lead magnate in 1801. In the 1790s Blackett had been approached by John Locke, a London lead merchant, and the two men formed a partnership in October 1798. When Locke failed to buy the existing site at Elswick (HER 4116), the partners bought the gardens in Gallowgate in 1798. Development of the Locke, Blackett and Company's Lead Works began. By the Spring of 1799 six white lead stacks were being built, and the first two had been completed and were working by the end of June. The remaining stacks were completed in August 1799. By August 1790 work was underway on three furnaces and buildings for the manufacture of red lead. By June 1800 a Boulton and Watt steam engine had been installed to grind the red lead. In September 1800 the firm also began to manufacture lead shot - firstly at one of Blackett's collieries at Wylam, but by the 1820s at the Gallowgate works. From the outset the Locke and Blackett partnership was ambitious to succeed. Blackett obtained manure, essential as part of the manufacturing process, from the cavalry barracks on the Town Moor. They offered higher wages and better conditions than the Elswick works, thus attracting some experienced workers from the rival firm. High standards of hygiene and welfare were maintained, even a free early breakfast for employees. The scale and layout of the Gallowgate works can best be seen on the detailed plans produced by Thomas Oliver, 1830, Robert Burnett, c.1840, first edition Ordnance Survey, 1850 and the Goad Insurance Plan. Before 1830 two ponds or reservoirs had been built over the infilled town wall ditch. The shot-shaft was sunk by 1826 at the latest. The pit was 220 feetdeep and 6 foot in diameter. When two tons of shot had been dropped into the pit it was uncovered and a workman lowered down to recover it. The pit probably went out of use soon after 1906. By the beginning of the 20th century Locke, Blackett & Company were under competitive pressure due in part to the inappropriate location of the lead works, with no easy tensport link, in a developing commercial and residential area. Production of red lead and lead shot ceased in 1905. In 1928 the firm was taken over by Associated Lead Manufacturers Ltd and the Gallowgate site put up for sale. It was cleared before the start of WW1 and the site bought by United Automobile Services Ltd for a bus depot.

A coach house and stable was in existence (possibly newly built) in 1730, when Thomas Armstrong, Hostman was granted a lease. The ground to the east was enclosed and described as "a waste". On Armstrong's death it passed to his administrator, also Thomas Armstrong, and Rev. Henry Wastell, who conveyed the building to Joseph Bell of Ryall, Northumberland, in 1759. By 1785 the building had become a slaughterhouse with a "dunghill" on one side, owned by the Mayor, Edward Mosley.