Jesmond Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England situated in Brandling Village in the Jesmond suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The church's official name is the Clayton Memorial Church and is unusual among Anglican parish churches in not being named after either a saint who appears in the church's calendar or a person of the Trinity. This reflects the church's conservative Evangelical roots. It is a grade II listed building. History The church had a slightly unusual beginning. 1856 saw the death of the Revd Richard Clayton, Master of St Thomas' Church in Haymarket and a local Evangelical luminary. In his place the church authorities wished to appoint a high church successor who was out of sympathy with Clayton's Reformed Evangelical principles. A large number of the congregation of St Thomas's were deeply unhappy. A committee was formed with the intention of planting a new church nearby, which "will form a central point for the maintenance and promulgation of sound scriptural and evangelical truth in a large and populous town." At the time, much of the land around the site was open fields; the building was designed by the architect John Dobson and consecrated in 1861. A vestry was added in 1874. List of vicars 1861-1882 Canon Berkeley Addison 1882-1888 Canon Somerset Pennefather 1889-1894 Theodore Charles Chapman 1894-1897 Edwin Savage 1898-1907 Canon Thomas Brocas Waters 1907-1916 Canon James Inskip 1916-1927 Canon George Oakley 1927-1947 Canon George Goddard 1947-1959 Harry Bates 1960-1972 Roger Frith 1973–present David Holloway Organ The church houses a pipe organ by the notable builder James Jepson Binns of Leeds which dates from 1913, although it has fallen into severe disrepair and is no longer played. It contains pipework from an organ by T. C. Lewis of 1895. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. List of organists Charles Chambers 1882-1890 John Murray 1890 - ???? Claud H. Hill J.E.Hutchinson 1903- 947 George Henry Sutcliffe 1947-1978 - ???? Chris Foy Chris Edwards 1996-2011 List of assistant organists Clifford Harker 1928-1930 Graham Steed 1934-1941 Miles Cragg 2006–present Present day Jesmond Parish Church is a conservative evangelical Anglican church of approximately 1,100 people. Currently the leadership team of the church includes David Holloway (vicar since 1973), Jonathan Pryke, Jonathan Redfearn, Ian Garrett and Alan Munden. The church is noted for its preaching, which aims to