Circa 1824. Tomb of the Kell family: Ebenezer died 1781, and burials up to
1849. Sandstone slab on 5 pedestals. The pedestals 4-sided, curved with
foliage decoration; the slab, with fluted frieze and 3 flowers each side,
bears the arms of the town of Newcastle. Historical note: the Kell family
owned quarries from which the famous 'Newcastle' grindstones came.

3 Grave covers and 3 headstones. Covers: C17 and C18.Sandstone. All
triangular section; the first with skulls at foot, coat of arms at head,
inscription illegible; the second, inscribed 'HERE LIETH THE BODY OF
ELIZABETH GATENBY, WIFE OF ROBERT GATENBY WHO DIED 1711', and with
inscription to John Gatenby died 1900, has chimney-like blocks at each end;
the third, also to Gatenby family, has cross along the ridge. Headstones:
C17;one plain slab inscribed 'The body of Henry Fenwick son to Henry Fenwick';
second with stepped top and elliptical head, inscription illegible, died 1693,
the third, having 3 curved sections to top, inscribed Thomas W.....e died 1697.

Parish Church.1822 by John Stokoek consultation with the rector, John Hodgson.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Graduated Westmorland
slate roof with stone gable coping to chancel and to nave parapets.
West tower; nave; north and south transepts chancel and narrower sanctuary.
Early English style. Tower of 3 stages has north door; traceried 2-light
west window; clock under 2-light round-headed belfry openings; pinnacled
battlements. 3-bay nave, 2-bay-deep transepts and 2-bay chancel and
sanctuary have 2-light windows, some blind; north and south doors in
transepts flanked by mullioned-and-transomed 2-light windows with cusped
arches to transoms. Blind roundels in gable peaks. Inscription in south
transept gable commemorating foundation of first church on site and rebuilding
of 1822. Interior:plaster with ashlar dressings. Double-chamfered moulded
chancel arch on half-octagonal pilasters; square-panelled plastered
ceiling, flat in chancel. Chancel has 4 sedilia on north, older double
piscina and 2 sedilia on south. Gothic-arcaded reredos with 1922 painted
panels. Octagonal font in south transept; late C19 Gothic-style font at
west end. Memorials to members of Brandling family, Russell family and
to Richard Dawes, classical style, by Jopling of Gateshead. Glass in
north transept by Ballantine. Sources: J. Raine; A. Memoir of the Rev. John
Hodgson, 1857 (2 vols); Taylor, The Parish Church of St. Mary Heworth; Gateshead
1922.

3 houses, now one dwelling. 1821 for T. Swann, sailor. Coursed squared
sandstone; roof of pantiles and Welsh slate with flat stone gable
coping 2 storeys,4 bays in all. First house: one sash window, door at right;
second house: one sash window, door at right converted to sash window;
third house: 2 windows over 2 shop entrances and blocked-in shop windows.
Flat stone lintels to windows and doors, projecting stone sills to
windows. One stone-coped end brick chimney at left; one banded brick
chimney between first and second houses.

A parade of nine Edwardian shops. Some have original shopfronts. No. 1 has an interesting later bank frontage. Some of the first floor bay windows are original, others have been altered or replaced. The attractive forecourt has trees but is cluttered with street furniture including four large concrete flower tubs.

House. Early C18. Brick with stone dressings; wall brick with
stone coping; roof Welsh slate. 2 storeys, 6 windows in 2 builds. First
build at right has irregularly placed windows: 2 wide, on ground floor,
3 narrower on first, all with stone lintels carved in imitation of
voussoirs, projecting concrete sills; stone band at first floor; square
sun dial dated 1718 at right above band. Stone-coped eaves parapet,
low tumbled-in brick gable parapet to steeply-pitched roof with one end
brick chimney. Second build at left: 2 irregularly-placed windows with
flat stone lintels below wider timber lintels, and modern door in alternating
block stone surround; 3 windows on first floor; brick first floor string. Roof
of lower pitch than that of first build. All windows top-hung modern casements
with glazing bars. Wall : tall stone-coped brick wall runs forward
from left corner of house.

A large and strikingly-sited early twentieth century Gothic Revival church by Charles Walker of Newcastle, with an elaborate interior with hammerbeam roof. The church and presbytery were built primarily through a generous legacy of £6000 from Mrs Blanche Leadbitter of Ryton.
R.C. parish church and attached presbytery. 1905 by Shibdon and Walker of Newcastle. The stone-built church was designed to accommodate 800 worshippers, and was 136 ft long and 54 ft 8 ins wide. The cost was about £9000. Rock-faced undercroft to church of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with roll-moulded gable copings.
Church: aisled nave; short transepts giving access to canted-apsed side chapels of chancel. Perpendicular style. 6-bay nave has north entrance in second bay from west: 4-centred-arched door in square surround with triangular parapet. 2 small cusped windows to each aisle bay; tall cusped clere-story windows recessed under elliptical-headed arches. Round west window above two 3-light windows. 2-bay chancel has tall cusped windows under eaves dentil table; tall gabled buttresses flank large round east window above central gabled buttress. Cross finials to roof. Interior: rear-arches to clerestory windows. High, pointed chancel arch. Wagon roof to crossing and chancel; plastered panelled nave ceiling. Gothic style altar and reredos. West organ loft. Presbytery of 3 storeys, 3 bays by one, with 2-storey rear wing. Door in one-storey porch rear; symmetrical street front has 2 windows on ground, 3 on first and 4 on second floors.
All windows sashes with upper glazing bars.
The church was dedicated by Bishop Thorman on 1 May 1930, at which time it was rededicated and a new altar added. The nave windows have early twentieth century stained glass. The sanctuary with its elaborate Gothic reredos has been redecorated recently. Much of the original sanctuary furniture survives, and was made for the church by William Carroll, a pattern-maker at Swan Hunter’s shipyard in Wallsend.

Family vault and surrounding wall. Stone.6 square-section curved
pedestals support moulded table stone commemorating Sir Joseph Cowen of
Blaydon Burn House, M.P., died at Stella Hall 1873; his wife died 1851;
and other members of the family to 1904. Round-coped dwarf wall, from which
rails have been removed, encloses tomb and joins north side of chancel and
east end of north aisle.

Pair of late Victorian semis, originally one house. Hipped roof, string course, bracketed eaves and central oriel window.

War memorial. Unveiled 1920. Whitish granite statue of soldier, hands resting on rifle. Base of two steps, with sloping panel on south commemorating people of Chopwell who died in second World War, to square
pedestal having guttae to 4 elliptical-headed panels bearing names of dead in the Great War and inscriptions on base: WE ARE THE DEAD IF YE BREAK FAITH WITH US WE SHALL NOT SLEEP and on frieze PRO PATRIA. The names of the dead in Korea in 1950 have subsequently been added.