St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church

Gateshead was once the dwelling place of holy religious, for the Venerable Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, mentions a certain Utta, as the illustrious abbot of the Monastery of Gateshead. This Monastery, with all its influence in the neighborhood, was in existence until the dissolution of the monasteries. After the Dissolution this estate came into the possession of the Riddell family. Mass was said (in secret) in the chapel of this estate and it was there that the Rev. John Ingram was martyred for daring to fulfill his priestly functions.