Rectory Park was landscaped in the 1940s when the Old Rectory (HER 264) became council offices and its grounds became a public park. The park has mature arboreal planting and a formal garden. The Gilpin Thorn (HER 7850) has associations with Bernard Gilpin. There are seating areas and playing fields. The park is bounded by a low wall of rubble with brick coping. The original high stone walls to the rectory were removed in the 1940s creating more public space and fine views of the rectory. The old Durham Road was re-christened The Broadway. The gate arch (HER 7011) was dismantled and moved to the entrance to the churchyard. The gatehouses were demolished. In 2011-12 six test pits were dug in the park as part of a community archaeology project. The test pits were only shallow, 0.50m deep maximum, and natural subsoil was not reached. Test pit one revealed a single sherd of medieval green glaze pottery. Another sherd and a fragment of lead window pane was found in test pit two. Test pit eight revealed animal bone including ox and oyster shells. The pottery and window lead was found near to the medieval rectory. The animal bone might indicate a kitchen midden. In 1968 a new office block and car park was built known as the Houghton Area Office (HER 16200), which has considerably altered the character of the NE corner of the park. The park contains no original benches, the oldest date to the 1960s. All litter bins and the majority of lighting is modern in date. There is one Edwardian style street lamp to the north-east corner of the rectory building.

Headstone. Circa 1848. Memorial to Thomas Miles Richardson, painter, engraver,
and leading figure in promoting the fine arts in Newcastle, died 1848, and to
other members of his family. By Pearson. Sandstone slab with shaped top and
moulded edge. Listed for historical interest.

These houses were listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Pair of houses, late C18. Painted brick with first floor band; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3 irregular bays. Central paired C20 doors in pilastered doorcase under early C20 pent bracketed hood. Paired late C19 sashes on ground floor right; other windows have plain C20 pivoted lights. Long, flat-headed range of dormers. Included for group value.'

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Synagogue, now shopping arcade. 1880 by John Johnstone. Sandstone ashlar with rock-faced plinth; Welsh slate roof. North Italian style. Basement and 2 storeys; 1:3:1 bays, the central 3 under gable. Outer entrance bays have end pilasters; double doors, and fanlights with circle glazing bars, between pink granite shafts under moulded round arches; 5 arcaded windows on upper floor. Pilasters flank central 3 bays; intersecting segmental arcade contains 2 side and 4 centre ground- floor windows; upper windows paired under round arches with Star of David carved in tympana. Sloped Lombard frieze up gable. 8-foil blind window in gable peak with acroterion. Blocks above pilasters have high, curved pyramidal finials with fishscale pattern. Interior galleries.'
Sharman Kadish (2206) - The synagogue included classrooms, caretaker's house and mikveh (Jewish Ritual Bath) in the basement. Closed in 1978 and became a shopping arcade until being gutted by fire. Now being converted for residential use. The only visible Jewish symbolism is the Stars of David in the upper-floor window heads. In 2013 the ground floor is Madisons, first floor is the Hyena Café.

In June 1998 during renovation works to No. 34 Low Row (once a church hall, now Baroque Public House), an unexpected early nineteenth century crypt was accidently broken into. The crypt contained nine burial vaults containing at least 25 coffins, many of which were well preserved with copper alloy nameplaces, coffin fittings and lead linings. The church hall was built in 1913 over the crypt, on part of a burying ground (HER 6037) shown on Wood's plan of 1826. Surtees records that the new overspill burial ground for St. Michael's Church was consecrated on August 9th 1810. The crypt was probably accessed by steps close to the rear wall of "Dr Gray's School" (Dr Grey was rector of St. Michael's Church). The burial ground was out of use by 1897. The crypt now consists of two parallel passages aligned east-west, running from the street frontage and blocked at the western end by crude brickwork probably in 1844-1857 when the crypt access over overlain by an extension to Dr Grey's school. The passages have shallow-arched brick-vaulted ceilings approx. 2.13m high at the apex. Along the sides of each corridor are a series of family vaults, each roughly square and roofed with a low north-south brick arch. The individual vaults were entered through low square-headed doorways which were bricked-up before the crypt was sealed. The walls and ceilings were limewashed. The side walls are a mixture of sandstone rubble and brick, the ceilings were in hand-made brick. Above each vault doorway was a sandstone lintel bearing the name of the family. At intervals along the walls of the passageways and in some of the vaults were cement settings for tapers or candles. Occasionally there were wrought iron candle holders hammered into the walls. Ten burial vaults were recorded, arranged in a regular grid plan. There are probably another two at the eastern end of the northern passage behind a C20 concrete support column. The coffins are of single-break form, all deposited facing to the east in the conventional Christian fashion. Many of the coffins had visible linings of lead with soldered joints. All the lead linings had an exterior shell of wood. No fabric coverings or decorative brass studwork was seen. Names on the vault lintels are: G. LOCKWOOD, T.S (contains the coffin of a Sarah Ann Davison who died in 1823), J. WRIGHT, T. BURN, EDWARD HINDE (died in 1840), BOWLBY, LIDDELL (this vault had an iron grille gate over the bricked up doorway), ALEXANDER MILNES, JAMES ROBINSON and SAMUEL WILD. After insertion of additional concrete supporting piers, the crypt has been resealed.

This terrace was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'6 houses. 1829-30 by Thomas Oliver for Richard Grainger. Stucco with Welsh slate roof; brick and rendered chimneys. 2 storeys; each house 3 bays. Right 6-panelled doors, all with overlights in plain reveals. Elliptical-headed recesses contain doors and sash windows, most with glazing bars; some blind. Floor bands except to No.9. Added rinceau frieze to No.6. Central house has entablature; blocking course throughout. Rounded left corner.'

Terrace of houses. Mid C19. Mostly English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; No. 13 Flemish bond; sandstone rubble rear and returns except for no. 13. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays each.
Architraves to doors and overlights; wedge stone lintels to windows, some sashes, with projecting stone ground-floor sills and first-floor sill band. Inserted late C19 canted bay to No. 11. Eaves band and gutter cornice. End brick chimneys.
Included for group value with Church of St. Matthew and as example of early working-class housing.

House, now shop. Late C18/early C19. English garden wall bond brick (3 and 1)
with painted ashlar dressings; roof not visible; brick chimneys. 3 storeys,
3 bays. C20 shop. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with
glazing bars on upper floors. Included for group value.

This structure was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Boundary marker. Early C19. Sandstone ashlar. 1/2 metre-high round-topped stone set in brick wall running forward from house. Inscribed R B S in Roman capitals. Historical note: Richard Burdon Sanderson owned land in Jesmond; in 1815 he took the name Sanderson. Source: F. W. Dendy 'An Account of Jesmond' Archaeologia Aeliana 3 I (1904), 120 and Plate XII.'

Nos. 9 to 17 odd (Theatre Royal lounge and restaurant; The Royal P.H.).
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Shops and houses, now public house and restaurant. Circa 1837 by Benjamin Green for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 7 bays in all. Ground floor has rusticated pilasters and entablature; altered windows under cornices. Upper floors have flat Roman Doric pilasters to third and fourth bays; sash windows, most with glazing bars. Second-floor windows have moulded sills; second-floor entablature with prominent cornice. Top-floor windows in plain reveals under eaves band and cornice. Right return of the Royal P.H. is part of the composition of the Grey Street elevation of the Theatre Royal (No.98) (q.v.).
Graded for group value. OS second edition named this as the Seymour Arms Public House. The Seymour's Arms was acquired by Howard & Wyndham's for £18,000 in 1948 and leased to James Deuchar. It was renamed the Royal Bar and Royal Buffet before becoming Kinnear's in 1988. In 2013 it is the Theatre Royal bar.