Before 1848 St. Bartholomew's Church at Longbenton was the parish church for Walker. Walker was expanded due to the ten coal mines in the area. The New Connection Methodists set up in Walker in 1838, Weslesyan Methodists in 1840, Presbyterians in 1846 and Welsh Independents in 1846 (Welsh iron workers from Port Talbot moved to Walker). The Church of England set up a congregation in the schoolroom of Walker Iron and Alkali Works in 1846. The foundation for the new Christ Church was laid in 1847. The architect was A.B. Higham (also designed Christ Church in Shieldfield) and the builder was Richard Cail. The church cost £1250. The churchyard was originally 6,806 square yards but in 1864 3 acres were added and in 1899 a further 7 acres. The 1899 enlargement was paid for by John Wigham Richardson, shipbuilder and others. In his will Richardson left money for maintaining the churchyard 'in beauty and order'. Christ Church had the largest parish churchyard in Britain in the 1970s and it featured in the Guiness Book of Records. Burials are now only allowed where space is available in existing graves.

The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in France in 1800 and arrived in England in 1842. It came to Newcastle in 1904 and moved to Fenham Hall (HER 9103) to establish a school and college. There are over 40 headstones in this small cemetery, which mark the resting place of St. Mary's College.

A large vaulted chamber in the cathedral courtyard. The chamber contains the coffins of William Riddell, Roman Catholic Bishop (1807-1847) and Rev. William Fletcher (died 1848). Both men died of typhoid. The crypt was never opened again. In December 2001, the crypt was rediscovered by Ground Penetrating Radar. The chamber measured 5m x 3m and has an arched roof. The height of the chamber is approx. 1.7m. The top of the roof is 1.2m below present ground level. There may be a side chamber to the east which is 3m x 2m in plan. An anomaly to the west is likely to be the main entrance. There is possibly another entrance to the east (like Rippon Cathedral and Hexham Abbey). In 2003, during the construction of a new cloister and courtyard the crypt was opened. It contains shelves for 20 coffins but 18 are unoccupied.

Memorial to William Riddell (1807-1847), Roman Catholic Bishop, in the form of a chest tomb. The tomb was possibly designed by A.W.N. Pugin, who was architect for the cathedral. It shows the Bishop's initials, his coat of arms and him attending a sick person. The Bishop is actually buried in a subterranean vault just south of the tomb. William Riddell was the son of Ralph Riddell, a racehorse breeder. The family were staunch Catholics. He studied in Rome then returned to Newcastle in 1832 to become assistant to the Rev. James Worswick (see HER 13238). William became bishop in 1843 and conducted mass at the opening of St. Mary's Cathedral in 1844. He died from typhoid in 1847 at his home in Charlotte Square.

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.

Opened in October 1934 at a cost of nearly £54,000. The architect was J.J. Hill. It was supposedly the only crematorium between Edinburgh and Darlington and was meant to solve Newcastle's burial problems. The cemetery includes the 1939-45 war memorial (HER 10961 and 11930) with around 40 headstones. There is an area for Muslim burials in the south-west part of the cemetery. The crematorium includes the loggia with memorial tablets fixed to the walls, a Garden of Remembrance for scattered ashes and a room with a Book of Remembrance. The first official cremation took place at Woking Crematorium in 1885. Until 1932 less than 1% of deaths were followed by cremation. In 1991 the figure was 71%.

This building included the chapel and register office and the sexton's house. It has been demolished. The architects were John and James Baker. Work on the cemetery began in 1829 and was completed in 1831. The sexton was paid by the grave (three shillings for an adult, two shillings for a child and one shilling for an infant) plus £4 per year for cemetery maintenance. Three shillings a day were paid for any work beyond normal duties. His house was rent-free.

Joshua Watson (1771-1853) was born in Allendale. He became a cheesemonger in The Side. In the early 1800s he bought Bensham Grove as a country cottage but lived there permanently. His son Joseph (1807-1874) married Sarah Spence, and became a solicitor and poet. Joseph and Sarah's son Robert Spence Watson (1837-1911) was also a solicitor. He continued to live at Bensham Grove, which became a focus for social and political reformers and Quakers. Joshua Watson's headstone is missing.

Corsair was the infant son of Shontayiga (Little Wolf) and Okeweme, members of a troupe of Native Americans from Iowa (Black Bear clan), who arrived in Newcastle in 1845 to exhibit their songs and war dances. The group spent almost a week here. The young boy died in Dundee soon after their visit to Newcastle. The family requested that he was buried at Newcastle.
The inscription on the ledger stone reads 'THE GRAVE OF CORSAIR INFANT SON OF SHON-TA-YIGA AND OKEE-WEME NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE IOWAY TRIBE WHO DIED AT DUNDEE 8TH OF 2ND MONTH 1845 AGED 8 MONTHS. THE REMAINS WERE INTERRED AT NEWCASTLE BY DESIRE OF THE AFFLICTED PARENTS'.
Anna Richardson, a Quaker, organised the burial. The Quakers visited the party while they were in Newcastle and found 'a party of 14 indians squatting on the floor of a small apartment, baby strapped in its cradle, and looking comfortable, having a crown of bells to jingle when it pleased - and White Cloud's little daughter running about amongst us'. John Wigham Richardson was about 8 years old when the group visited. He later wrote 'we youngsters dreamed of buffaloes and tomahawks, moccasins, bows and arrows and of the solemn forests and plains of the Great West. I shall never forget the delight of seeing them rub two pieces of wood together and then blowing up a fire.'
The troup moved to Paris later in 1845. They were received by Louis-Philippe at the Louvre, where they performed the Little Wolf's War Dance and presented a pipe to the King. The visit was painted by American painter George Catlin, who accompanied the Iowas in Europe. Karl Girardet produced an oil painting in 1845 of the troup performing the dance at Tuileries. This hangs in the Chateau de Versailles.
Catlin produced an engraving of the troup of Iowas in 1840 and turned this into a painting in 1860. The group includes Okeweme holding Corsair in his cradle. Catlin also painted individual portraits of some of the troup, including one of Shontayiga.
Okeweme (Corsair's mother) also tragically died on 11th June 1845 aged just 17. She is buried in an unmarked grave in Montmatre Cemetery in Paris.
A drawing of a proposed monument to Okeweme appeared in L'Illustration on 2nd August 1845. This was never made. But one of the bas-reliefs proposed for her monument is featured on the funerary monument for Aristide Ollivier (Parisian journalist, died 1851) in the cimetiere St. Lazare at Montpellier. The bronze statue of Ollivier on top of the monument, is by Auguste Preault.
Auguste Preault also produced a bronze bust of Okeweme 1845-1849, which is on display in the Museum of St. Lo in Paris. The bust was restored in 2018.
There is a drawing of Shontayiga at the deathbed of his wife Okeweme in George Sand's book 'Relation d'un voyage chez les sauvages de Paris'.

James Wilkie (1762-1834) was a surgeon and apothecary of the Newcastle Dispensary. His memorial was erected by the Governors of the Dispensary as 'a mark of respect for his humane and faithful services over a period of 50 years'. It depicts a snake wrapped around a tree. His son took over his work, but jumped to his death from a first floor window in 1838, aged 40. He is buried in this cemetery also.