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St. John the Baptist's Church, Grainger Street, Newcastle, date of consecration approx 1145 - 1245. The 15thC font cover and the Jacobean pulpit are fine examples of local woodwork. When the church was restored a new sanctuary was created at the Crossing, which contains a stone altar slab given in 1712 as a reminder of the Church Revival under Queen Anne. The chancel, now the Lady Chapel, contains a window including the fragments of mediaeval glass with the earliest known representation of the arms of Newcastle. Further along the wall can be seen a cruciform opening which enabled the anchorite, whose cell was above the present sacristy, to see the altar. The rood and reredos are both the owrk of Sir Charles Nicholson.
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