History

 The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin has for many centuries been at the very heart of the villiage community and has become one of the important historic treasures of Tyneside.  Here we offer a short potted history of the life of faith lived out in and around our historic church building, reproduced from a pamphlet compiled by James W. F. Madden, 1999.


The Quykham Files
The history of a place called Quykham

Parish Church
An overview of the historic parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Whickham

Parochial School
Information and history of the oldest church school in the diocese.

Portrait Gallery
Brief notes on some of the distinguished characters in the history of the Parish of Whickham.

Fire! Fire! Fire!
An account of the 'Great Fire' of 1841

From the Registers
Extracts from church registers providing interesting perspectives of the history of the parish.