The Non Conformist Meeting House in Thorntree Lane, now known as Magnesia Bank dates from the late C17.

This church was built 1654-68 to replace the decayed parish church in Tynemouth Priory. Finished by Robert Trollop, 1786-88; tower with six bells added by John Dodds 1786-88; extensive rebuilding of the rest of the church by John Dodds 1792-93. Only a short length of the north wall of the C17 building is thought to remain, encased in the north aisle wall. The organ is said to have come from Vauxhall pleasure gardens in London, installed in west gallery in 1794. Wooden font 1807. Tower clock added in 1859 and two more bells in 1878. Chancel enlarged and organ chamber constructed, pews and Chancel plaster ceiling added 1869. During first half of C20 a second storey was added to the vestry block, carved oak altar rails and a new oak pulpit was added as a memorial to the Fallen of the Great War. Most of the windows were lost to bomb damage in WW2. In the second half of the C20 the north and south galleries were removed and a new west gallery was created. The organ was re-sited into it and was extended using mahogany from the HMS Calliope. The former organ chamber was dedicated as the seamen's Chapel of St Nicholas. The chancel was refurbished including the east window by Leonard Evetts, a curved chancel step and modification of the chancel arch to resemble the arches in the nave.
The church was listed Grade II in 2014 with the following description:
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Church, Anglican mid to later C18 incorporating a fragment of a mid C17 church, the latter built by Robert Morley and completed by Robert Trollope; tower and extensive rebuilding by John Dodds in 1786-88 and 1792-3 respectively. Neo-classical in style. C19 and C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar with plinth and rusticated quoins and Westmorland slate roofs
PLAN: west tower, aisled nave with apsed chancel with half-octagonal north organ chamber, now chapel. Large later C20 extension attached to the north.
EXTERIOR: the three-stage tower has a west double door under an ornamental fanlight, flanked by large blind roundels and with a large roundel above. The first stage has round-headed window with keystoned surrounds and a clock face to each face and the upper stage has belfry openings under a cornice and battlemented parapet; it is surmounted by a weather-cock finial and an early C21 flagpole. The three-bay nave has full-height aisles with a quoined, slightly-projecting central bay containing a double door with an ornamental fanlight; immediately above is a stone tablet bearing a sundial flanked by ionic pilasters bearing an inscription recording the foundation of the church and major additions. There is a roundel and above, and the flanking bays have tall round-headed windows under smaller similar gallery windows and there are similar windows in the right and left returns, the single-bay chancel and the stepped in apse. There are hipped roofs to the nave, aisles and chapel with the exception of the chancel, which has a roundel. A rainwater head dated 1832 in the angle of the chancel and south aisle may be re-sited from an earlier, smaller chancel.
INTERIOR: plainly painted plaster walls throughout with flat, corniced ceilings; there are egg-and-dart and Greek key stucco decoration to the nave ceiling and motifs of the Trinity to the chancel ceiling. There are numerous C18 and C19 memorials attached to its walls. The chancel, with modified arch and C20 fittings, has a tripartite East window with stained glass by Leonard Evetts depicting the Apocalypse, panelled below. The mid-C20 seamen’s chapel to the left is separated from the chancel by an oak and wrought iron screen decorated with tridents and stars and surmounted by two C19 model sailing ships with local connections. The carved decoration above the chapel entrance incorporates The Coat of Arms of Tynemouth Monastery and sea motifs. The chapel’s east window, also designed by Leonard Evetts, depicts three lifeboats marking important stages in the history of the lifeboat service in Tynemouth, the Original (1789), the Constance (1862) and the Tynesider (1962). Stained glass throughout the church is mostly post-war in date with the exception of some coloured stained glass to the north wall. The elliptical-arched nave arcades are carried on slender Tuscan columns and there are cast iron columns to the inserted west gallery, which carries the extended C19 organ. Below are the village stocks and the Milbourne Tombstone (1689). Original entrances with classical doorcases are set in the centre of the north and south aisle, and to the right of the latter is an C18 font comprising a small fluted bowl on a moulded pedestal. Two stone grave covers are set in floor of the east end of the nave: Stephen Dockwray, vicar, died 1681 (this partly missing) and members of the Howlett family, died 1683 and 1694. The tower retains a stone winder staircase lined with cow hair plaster and the original clock and bells within their original frame.

House of Correction, now workshop and showroom. 1792, converted 1906, altered late twentieth century. Coursed ashlar with hipped slate roof. Ashlar plinth. Street front has single storey two window section to right. Façade to left obscured by three storey twentieth century addition. East front has two plain doorways beyond and a plain wall to former courtyard with a tall stone stack. Wall beyond has blue brick shed with asbestos roof built over former exercise yard and large entrance opening. North front has wall to left topped with blue brick addition with blocked windows and doors with concrete steps. To right, two storey cell block has central cell windows with plain stone mullions and iron bars. West front has single storey brick lean-to addition with brick buttresses and twentieth century windows to right and above two tiny cell windows with iron bars and to right a plain sash window.

The Dogger Letch, swampy ground at the west end of Low Street, was crossed in the C17 by a wooden bridge connecting the present Liddle and Clive Streets. A toll house was located near by which was demolished in 1857. The wooden bridge is marked on Woods 1827 map. Craster states that a causeway called the Half Moon led from the wooden bridge to Bank head and continued as Church Way to the parish church.

In the mid C17 a bridge crossed the Pow Burn at the east end of the town to give access to the main street. In 1648 Newcastle Trinity House contributed to the building of a bridge over the runner at the Low Lights. Post Medieval maps do not show this bridge but this could be an omission from the surveys. It does appear on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map 25 inch to the mile map.

The Old Low Light was built in 1727, raised in 1775. It burnt three candles instead of two. It was given copper reflectors in 1736, and oil lamps were substituted for candles in 1773. It was converted into almshouses in 1830, when the building of the New Low Light (HER 2057) rendered the Old Low Light redundant. The lantern turret of the low light was removed to make way for an additional storey and the building has now no resemblance to a lighthouse {2}. Brick of varying bonds with quoins at right. Ground floor rendered. Painted sandstone ashlar, right return, sandstone rubble lower courses on left return. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Ground floor - flat arches to windows. Elliptical brick arches to windows on upper floors. Some windows bricked up, some with sashes burnt or removed. Inserted double loading doors in first floor. 3 commemorative panels, one dated 1775. Sundial on second floor. Hipped roof without chimneys. Boundary stone attached to left return - sandstone block inscribed WD/BS/No7 about 12cm above ground. Soft stripping during the conversion of the Old Low Light into a community education centre in 2013 revealed several historic features. These included part of a brick partition wall contemporary with the main building, a possibly late 18th century stud partition with carpenter's joinery marks, early floor joists and a fireplace flue. Observations externally and internally suggested that the second storey is the product of two phases of raising the building, the first in 1775, and the second in 1830.

The Old High Light was erected in 1727 and burnt three candles instead of two. It were given copper reflectors in 1736, and oil lamps were substituted for candles in 1773. Lightage dues were levied according to the tonnage of the vessel in 1801 and finally abolished in 1862. On 2nd March 1805 at a general meeting of the shipowners of North and South Shields it was unanimously resolved that the leading lights at North Shields stood too far and formed too great an angle with the channel, and that application should be made to Parliament for an Act for the purpose of building two lighthouses. The New High Light (HER 2129) was built in 1807. The Old High Light was subsequently converted into almshouses. The high light still stands little changed. The lantern turret of the low light was removed to make way for an additional storey and the building has now no resemblance to a lighthouse {6}. Lighthouse, later almshouses, now house. 1727 for Trinity House of Newcastle upon Tyne. Painted render and brick, Welsh slate roof. Lead roof to lead-covered lantern, with large ball finial on its ogee-hipped roof. Four storeys with later porch and left extension. C20 glazing to windows. Eroded plaque between first and second floors commemorates conversion to almshouses in 1807. Listed mainly for historical interest.

In the C17 Newcastle continued to attempt to prevent development at North Shields, complaining about the ships unloading and loading there in 1684. The burgesses and Newcastle Trinity House attempted to resist proposals to build a quay ay the Low Lights in 1699, but have been unsuccessful because by 1714 a quay had been built at the Low Lights (SMR 4554) and another near to the ferry boat landing at the west end of the town - the Long Staith.

In the C17 Newcastle continued to attempt to prevent development at North Shields, complaining about the ships unloading and loading there in 1684. The burgesses and Newcastle Trinity House attempted to resist proposals to build a quay ay the Low Lights in 1699, but have been unsuccessful because by 1714 a quay had been built at the Low Lights and another near to the ferry boat landing at the west end of the town (SMR 4555).

The earliest mention of milling at North Shields occurs when a mill was burnt in 1276 by the burgesses of Newcastle. Dated C13th.