A small Early English Gothic church built in 1860-61 by voluntary labour for the largely Irish Catholic population of Jarrow. The church was remodelled and an elaborate Perpendicular Gothic south transept added in 1883, possibly from designs by Dunn & Hansom. RC parish church. 1860-62 with additions built by J Storer in 1883. Coursed squared sandstone; roof of Welsh slate. Oriented north-south; full-width low entrance porch added at ritual west, large aisled ritual south transept of 1883. First building early English style, additions perpendicular. 3-bay nave with lancets; transept of 4 bays with a large rose window over elaborately decorated door in gable, having ogee drip mould with angel stops and fleur-de-lis finials; south elevation: at aisle level a string returning with griffin stops and at each end a 2-light window; 4 perpendicular windows in the clerestory; a 5-light window in the south gable, having canopied niches either side between 2 octagonal turrets with dragons and gargoyles; east gable rendered.
In the 1960s or 1970s, the school buildings just to the east of the church were demolished. As part of post-Vatican II reordering in c.1984 by J. & W. Lowry Ltd, a new forward altar was installed, originally from the Catholic church at Alnwick. A new ambo was created from the pillars of the old altar. In 1996, the statues from the Lourdes grotto, which had been damaged by candles, were moved from the transept to the nave. In 1997, the transept was converted to a parish hall and the former sacristy was altered to provide a meeting room, kitchen and toilet facilities. In 2002, the church was refurbished and reordered, creating a weekday chapel in the former Lady Chapel at the (liturgical) northeast. In 2009, the church received a grant of £149,000 from English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund for stone repairs and the replacement of the roof.

Cemetery entrance 1890 by Frederick West of Hebburn for Hedworth, Monkton and Jarrow Burial Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Entrance arch with low quadrant walls to pedestrian gates; at the right the wall continues in front of the entrance lodge. Gothic style. Arch is gabled, flanked by buttresses, gabled turrets; plinth and quoins. Walls have plinth and chamfered coping. 5 octagonal stone piers, splayed at foot, for 2 pedestrian gates and terminating wall in front of house, which have tall ridged coping with finial. 2 cast iron piers in front of house. Gates and railings; cast and wrought iron, by Milton Iron Works (order for gate design No 395) spear headed and decorated. Founders' plate on railings : McDowell and Steven, Glasgow.

Presbyterian, now United Reformed, church. 1872 by R J Johnson of Newcastle. Coursed sandstone rubble; Welsh slate roofs. Nave and transepts; west entrance porch; north-west tower. Decorated Gothic style. Porch has 3 crocketed gables, the central one high with bud finial and having marble shafts flanking double door; east gable has large round spoked window, both transepts have windows of 2 lights and a large 10-foiled round window over; broad 5-bay nave. Very tall and slender tower has much, decoration, including tall crocketed gablets to belfry openings with marble shafts. Interior : semicircular panelled wooden ceiling rising from ornate shafted corbels. Historical note: the building was the gift of Andrew Leslie, whose shipbuilding firm dominated Hebburn in the C19. It is prominent landmark at the top of the river valley.
Recorded by Peter Ryder in 2014 ahead of redevelopment. The interior of the church has lost many of its original features due to its recent use as a warehouse. It retains a ring of 6 bells in the bell tower (3 original) - it may be the only Presbyterian building to have a full ring of bells.
Peter Ryder - sometimes called the 'Presbyterian Cathedral'. Andrew Leslie brought so many Scots to work at his shipyard here, that the area became known as 'Little Aberdeen'. Ryder says Thoman Richardson was the architect not RJ Johnson. The church opened in 1873. It could seat 700 people. It cost £9000. It closed in the 1980s and served as a warehouse before becoming a Buddhist meditation centre.

RC parish church. 1888 by C Walker of Newcastle. Polychrome brick with terracotta and sandstone dressings; roof of Welsh slate. 4-bay nave, with north and south aisles and south porch; 2-bay chancel. Double transepts, apsidal chapel to north transept. North and south elevations: 3 over 3 lancet windows to each transept gable, with 3 slit openings in the peaks : 3 lancets to each aisle bay, 2 to each bay in the clerestory; angle buttresses with 1 set-back and gablets at east and west ends, buttresses with 3 set-backs to transepts and aisles. West elevation: round window, sandstone, with plate tracery in round-headed brick recess having gauged brick arch; small lancets in peak flank corbelled pilaster bearing cross finial. Hood moulds, beast and flower stops, strings, gable and buttress copings of terracotta. Interior: boarded roof with scissor-braced trusses, alternate ones having strutted arch braces and resting on corbels of stone and brick, continuous over nave and chancel; Lady Chapel apsidal with ach-braced wood roof; north transept contains gallery with organ case, but only corbels show position of south gallery either removed or not built; central arcaded beam supports transept roofs; corbels of angels and mythical beasts; glass, mostly original, by Reed Millican of Newcastle. Furnishings: altar and reredos by John Gallagher of Newcastle, are Gothic, as are the side screens and communion rail and pulpit of similar design. Source: Jarrow Express 8th June, 1888, p.7: report of opening. In 1912, a porch was added to the church. After the end of the First World War, the Lady Chapel was added as a war memorial. During the interwar years, the presbytery was extended (the extension is now used as the parish office). In 1947, an organ gallery was erected in the (liturgical) south transept. The old school-chapel was demolished in the late 1970s and a new parish hall built on its site (opened 1984). The south gallery was destroyed by fire and removed. In the late 1990s, the church was reordered by the architect John Waugh, who also replaced some of the windows and the floor. The church was consecrated on 28 October 1999.

Kitchen garden associated with large house at St. James'. Shown on Oliver's map of 1838, Tallis' 1851 map and Ordnance Survey first edition map and a plan of 1875.

Summerhouse associated with large house at St. James'. Shown on Oliver's map of 1838, Tallis' 1851 map and Ordnance Survey first edition map and a plan of 1875.

Coach house associated with large house at St. James'. Shown on Oliver's map of 1838, Tallis' 1851 map and Ordnance Survey first edition map. Named as coach house and stables on a plan of 1875.

The area once occupied by St. James Chapel (HER 297) was demolished and rebuilt in 1797-1800 when it became known as St. James' Place with a large house, associated grounds and outbuildings. Shown on Oliver's map of 1838, Tallis' 1851 map and Ordnance Survey first edition map. There was a contract drawn up on 2 August 1828 between Rev. Richard Clayton, Master of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene and the Brethren, Mayor, Alderen and Common Council of Newcastle and Thomas Carr of Newcastle, gent. In the contract Rev. Clayton agreed to lease the site to Thomas Carr, with permission to rebuild, for 99 years at £50 per annum. The area was cleared away once more to make way for the Hancock Museum in 1878.

This building was listed grade II* in 1971 with the following description:
'Museum.1878 by John Wardle for the Newcastle Natural History Society. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; roof not visible. Greek Revival style. 2 storeys, 4:1:5:1:4 bays. One-bay projections flank wide stone steps up to terrace with 5 double doors and overlights. Plain stone reveals to doors and to wood mullioned-and- transomed windows in end bays and on first floor; ground floor of projections has blind panels. Square Doric attached columns define sections. Entablature and parapet with raised panels over projecting wings and over central low relief THE HANCOCK MUSEUM on fascia. Square piers flanking lowest steps have cast iron urn-shaped supports to square gas lamps, now disused.'
McCombie dates it to 1880-4. Pevsner adds that "it is unbelievably Dobsonian for that date, with Dobson's beautiful ashlar, his Doric pilasters and heavy attic, and even the sans-serif capital letters of the pre-Victorian nineteenth century". The museum was named after renowned local naturalists John (d.1890) and Albany Hancock. Lord Armstrong made a generous contribution to its cost, and his statue now stands outside it (HER 5179). The platform in front of the museum is made up of 3m long slabs of sandstone brought from Haydon Bridge by train. Extended and converted into the Great North Museum in 2008-9.

158 lithics were collected during fieldwalking at Fox Covert in advance of open cast coal mining. Large number of tools mostly dating to Mesolithic period. The assemblage is of particular interest as there are a number of heavily patinated pieces which are probably early Mesolithic. Some of these have been recycled into later tools such as a scraper, which after discard and subsequent patination was then rechipped again into a scraper that would be typical of types found in later Mesolithic assemblages. A blade tool has been re-chipped at a later date into a scraper. Another piece that is probably Early Mesolithic is a patinated broken blade segment from a triangular-section broad blade piece and a broad blade microburin. Interestingly, no broad blade tools like this have been found in dated later Mesolithic assemblages such as Howick in Northumberland. This area formed the margin of a Post-Glacial Lake (Prestwick Carr), and there is no reason why it should not have been utilised in a similar way to the better known North Yorkshire sites around Lake Pickering (Star Carr etc). Other pieces in the assemblage can be confidently ascribed to the Later Mesolithic. This includes a wide range of tools ranging from cores, burins and scrapers to microburins and edge-trimmed blades and an awl. There is also possibly a small amount of later material in the assemblage dating to the Neolithic and/or Early Bronze Age including a beautiful disc scraper and pieces made from nodular flint. 93.7% of the assemblage is made from flint, 5.1% is chert and 0.6% is agate and tuff {Waddington 2005}. 35 lithics were collected during the subsequent archaeological excavation at Fox Covert. One flint came from the pit alignment (HER 13282). The rest came from unstratified contexts or from medieval features (HER 13284). The small assemblage includes a range of tools including edge-trimmed and retouched pieces, scrapers and an arrowhead. Prestwick Carr was the site of a large post glacial lake that would have been attractive for early hunter-gatherer groups.