Notes: 1. “Built as a War Memorial Church commemorating those who gave their lives in the 1914-18 war. The small chapel was already built and used for worship before being added to in 1922. The main areas of interest in the building are the memorial window, made as one set, each in memory of a different regiment and covering all the services….” (Guide to the Anglican Churches of Newcastle and Northumberland”)
2. “H.M.S. Valentine, the destroyer sent to the Tyne for the consecration of the Holy Trinity War Memorial Church, Newcastle, left the river yesterday at 7.00 am” (Shields Daily News, 27/09/1922)
3. “The chancel and chapel were built some years ago and the portion then built was erected to the memory of the late Mr. Gurney Hoare. Mr. and Mrs. R.S. Dalgliesh and family have undertaken to complete the building as a war memorial and a thankoffering for victory . . . the windows . . . will . . . serve as a special memorial to the Northumbrian, Newcastle and Tyneside units of His Majesty’s Forces who fell in the war . . .”
4. The stained glass windows are dedicated thus:
North aisle
St. Columba & St. Paulinus – Royal Engineers &
Royal Army Service Corps; St. Aidan & St. Ebba – Royal Regiment of Artillery;
St. Cuthbert and St. Oswald – Royal Naval Air Service & Royal Flying Corps;
St. Benedict Biscop & Ven. Bede – Auxiliary Services of H.M. Fleet;
St. Wilfrid & St. Hilda – Royal Army Ordnance Corps;
South aisle from west end:
St. Nicholas, Patron saint of Newcastle upon Tyne and also Patron Saint of Sailors and Boys. Window dedicated to the youth of Newcastle upon Tyne and also the Navy and Mercantile Marine.
Epiphany window – Northumberland Fusiliers;
Baptism window – Durham Light Infantry;
Call of St. Peter – The Allies America, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Japan, Serbia, Roumania, Montenegro;
Christ walking on the Water – Royal Navy;
The Good Samaritan – Royal Army Medical Corps and British Red Cross;
Morning chapel
St. Paul & St. Luke – Mercantile Marine;
St. Matthew and St. Mark – Northumberland Hussars;
Magdalene and Mary – Women’s Royal Navy Service and Queen Mary’s Army Auxillary Service.
5. “At the end of the 1914-18 war Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Dagliesh decided to complete the church as a threefold memorial – a thanksgiving for victory; a permanent thanksgiving for the fact that none of their family was lost in the war; and in commemoration of those of their native county, and especially the men of Tyneside, who had given their lives for their country”. First hundred years of Jesmond Parish Church
6. The weathervane in the form of a model cargo steamer was donated as a “memorial to the cargo steamers and their crews of all ranks, who managed those ship”. Over 15,000 men of the Mercantile Marine were lost during 1939-45.
7. After laying the foundation stone, Mrs. Sanderson was presented with a silver trowel.
8. Mrs. Sanderson’s own two sons Philip Noel and Geoffrey Euan were killed in the Great War.
9. The building of the church began in 1905, and after the Great War was made into a War Memorial.
