Projecting gilded square clock topped with a gilded female figure added to the building in 1935. Cost £700 and operates on a synchronome electrical impulse system. Replica of the Alfred Glover designed clock on the shop at Pilgrim Street/Blackett Street (HER 12216).

This cantilevered square clock by Cackett Burns Dick & Mackellar topped with a gilded female figure with up-stretched arms by Alfred Glover was added to the goldsmith's building in 1935. The statue represents Venus. There are cherubic winged heads at the four corners. The figure was cast by Tudor Art Metal Co. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle unveiled the clock on 31st July 1935. The clock is dedicated to 'Progress'. The red domed roof of the building houses a peal of bells which were once linked to the clock. The clock cost around £700 and operates on a synchronome electrical impulse system {1}. The carillion of bells was installed in 1935. The 7th bell is engraved with the names of the directors Crossley, Cooke and A.J. Pettinger. There are three different chimes - Westminster, Whittington and Guildford, which were changed weekly. Guildford Cathedral has the same set of chimes {2}. There is a replica clock on the Westgate Road shop (HER 12217).

Located inside the church tower, on the first floor. Inserted by the 1868 restorers as a lintel over the southern single splayed window. The slab is barely bonded into the medieval masonry and is clearly secondary to the C13 fabric. First recorded by Peter Ryder in 1993. 1.24m long x 42 cm wide and 12cm deep. Bears a relief-carved design of a cross with expanded arms, flanked by a series of three similar animals (lions?) on the left, and several figures, possibly a hunting scene, on the right. Ryder (1994) states that although the formal series of animals has some Pre-Conquest parallels, the most likely date would appear to be early C12. It has no parallel in County Durham {1}. Clive Hart of Tyne and Wear Museums disagrees with this date because splayed cross arms with wedge-shaped arms, which is what Peter Ryder believes this cross had before it was broken, can be recognised in Anglo-Saxon sculptures at Easington (Corpus 1A), Billingham (15 A/B) and Haughton-le-Skerne (11A). Hart suggests that a fourth lion may have been lost from the slab, or perhaps the figure of the Biblical Daniel. The lions are similar to those on cross slab No. 2 at Meigle in Strathmore. The nearest sculptured parallels may be the cross shaft at Sockburn (Corpus 4A and 7C) and at Brompton (Durham Cathedral, cathedral no. LVI). Hart describes the hunting scene on the Whitburn slab as depicting a menagerie of wild beasts, a standing hunter and a mounted figure, who may have a spear in his hand. This echoes the Book of Psalms (Psalm 16, verse 10, Psalm 21, verse 11 and Psalm 34 verse 7) where the spear expresses danger and a hope of deliverance. Vestiges of sculptures of human figures and beasts once adorned the string-course on the western porch of Monkwearmouth monastery. Hart suggests a date of around AD 1000 and states that this raises the question of the possibility of a late Anglo-Saxon church on or near to the site of the present church {2}.

Two pre-Reformation bells dedicated to St. Mary and St. Andrew. It is for this reason that the church is sometimes said to be dedicated to either saint; however its original dedication, if any, is not known {1}. The two medieval bells and their frames are a rare survival. They are similar to two of the bells in Heighington Parish Church in County Durham, and are though to come from the same foundry. They are inscribed 'SCE ANDREA ORA PRO NOBIS' (with a representation of the martyrdom of St. Andrew under the first initial) and 'SCA MARIA ORA PRO NOBIS' (with a representation of the Virgin and Child).

Hutchinson (p. 13) refers to an old stone coffin with a lid bearing a pair of scissors (or shears?) being found during the 1867 restoration of the church, and placed in the churchyard. This is presumably the coffin and lid of coarse sandstone now lying to the east of the south porch. Both have the same distinctive shape with the head semi-circular and slightly shouldered (2m x 0.54m x 0.37m). There is now no trace of any carving on the lid, which is broken into several pieces. The coffin is unusual because the head cavity is almost conical in section. The edges of the lid are rounded. There are no parallels in County Durham. The coffin may be post medieval.

1) A slab of coarse brown sandstone now built into the external face of the south wall of the south aisle to the west of the porch, 1m above ground level. The slab is 1.88m long but has been cut into two pieces, losing the cross shaft and the centre of the head. The original width of the head would have been 0.66m and the base 0.42m. The cross head is carved in relief within a sunken circle. The head is a double ring type with a bracelet cross at the centre surrounded by a ring of 8 bracelets with cross bands. The terminals are fleur-de-lys form. The base is a three-step calvary. On the right side of the shaft is a sword and a weathered inscription which Boyle (1892, 570) interprets as 'CVRME CARNIS Q…. QVOD ES FUI'. However Hutchinson's guidebook conjectures it to read 'DURO DORMES SURGERE QUOD ESTI' (I last for ever, thou sleepest to rise what thou hast been). The slab has a chmafered edge, the corners of which are ornamented with a dog-tooth motif. Second half of C13. 2) A weathered slab of light-colourered sandstone, 1.83m x 0.43m x 0.32m. Now built into the external face of the west wall of the south aisle 2.5m above the ground. Relief design, a straight-arm cross with cup terminals enclosed within a circle. Part of an emblem on the left side of the shaft is visible. An unpublished drawing by C.C. Hodges in the Black Gate Museum shows the stone in better condition, with a knife to the left of the shaft and a poleaxe to the right. Could be C12 or later. 3) A slab of purple-grey sandstone, 1.55m x 0.36m. Now built into the external face of the west wall of the south aisle 1m above ground level. The base and the right edge of the slab have been cut away. Relief design. The cross head has eight arms with fleur-de-lys terminlas, each with a distinctive swollen 'calyx' (like an example at St. Oswald's Church in Durham) enclosed within a circle. Pairs of shoots terminating in fleur-de-lys spring at right angles from the shaft. On the left of the shaft is a key. C14. 4) In between slabs 2 and 3 is a stone 0.42m x 0.19m which from its form may be the head of a slab with its upper angles chamfered but the only carving visible is a single incised marginal line. Dated C12-14th.

A recumbent effigy by William Smith of Michael Matthew of Cleadon who died in 1689. There is a skull placed between the feet and contemporary-costumed weepers.

1) Upper part of a slab of coarse yellow-grey sandstone, 0.94m x 0.52m. Its right edge has been partly broken away. A bracelet cross in relief design, within a circle with a ring overlying the bracelets (like an example from St. Mary's Church at Barnard Castle). On the left side of the cross shaft are a fleur-de-lys and leaf above what look like the handles of a pair of scissors. On the right side of the shaft is a fragment of the left quillon of a sword (according to C.C. Hodges and Fyson). Early to mid C13. 2) The upper part of a slab of coarse brown sandstone, 0.79m x 0.50m. The cross head is carved in relief within a sunken circle, a ring of eight bracelets around an 8-spoked centre. A few letters remain of a marginal inscription in Lombardic style. The name appears to have begun with the letters WIL and was thus probably William. Perhaps mid C13. The two slabs lay in the garden of the old rectory to the west of the church in 1922, but are now built into the internal face of the west wall of the south porch. A third slab described as being on the north side of the path to the south of the church has not been located. Dated C13th.

Surtees refers to two medieval monuments which had once lain in the churchyard but had 'long since perished'. The second was an effigy of a clergyman or priest inscribed 'Hic jacet Alexander de Biddicke'. In 1962 when some outbuildings of the rectory were being demolished, a low-relief effigy of an ecclesiastic, probably a deacon, was discovered. This is probably the Alexander de Biddicke stone. It has been trimmed and has lost its inscription. The slab is now set against the internal face of the south wall of the chancel.

Surtees refers to two medieval monuments which had once lain in the churchyard but had 'long since perished'. The first was a ridged coffin lid sculptured with a sword and a cross and the inscription "Hic jacet Jacobus Sanderson'.