years after Queen Victoria's death, the statue was a gift from W. H. Stephenson, a company director and politician who held the office of mayor in Newcastle seven times. The cathedral is home to a number of standards presented to the cathedral for safe keeping at the end of the First World War; they are displayed in the Chapel of the Northumberland Fusiliers. These include two belonging to the Royal Naval Division (Hood Battalion and Hawke Battalion), and 16 belonging to battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th 12th & 13th, 14th, 16th (Newcastle Commercials), 17th (North Eastern Railway Pioneers), 18th (1st Tyneside Pioneers), 19th (2nd Tyneside Pioneers), 22nd (3rd Tyneside Scottish), 24th (1st Tyneside Irish), 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 2nd Garrison). Dean and chapter As of 9 December 2022: Dean – vacant since November 2022 Canon for Music and Liturgy (i.e., precentor) – Clare MacLaren (since 11 October 2015) Canon for Outreach and Discipleship (i.e., chancellor) – Peter Dobson (since December 2019) Archdeacon of Northumberland – Mark Wroe (since 24 March 2019 installation) Canon Pastor – Jean Skinner (retired since 2017; SSM called Canon Pastor since 7 April 2019) Director of Mission and Ministry (Diocesan Canon) – vacant since 15 July 2022 Music The cathedral has a strong tradition of music. In 1503, the thirteen-year-old Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII and engaged to marry James IV of Scotland, while passing through Newcastle on her way north, noted in her journal a number of children in surplices "who sang melodious hymns, accompanying themselves with instruments of many sorts". Later, the baroque composer Charles Avison (1709–1770) was organist and choirmaster at the church. The cathedral choir has been featured on BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong. The cathedral is home to a fine organ, a four-manual Grand Organ built by T C Lewis, although rebuilt several times since, notably by Harrison & Harrison in 1911 and 1954 and by Nicholson & Co. of Worcester in 1981. See also Samuel Hammond References External links Official Cathedral website Newcastle Diocese website Photos and panoramas of Cathedral interior by Peter Loud BBC Tyne image gallery 360° interior panoramas at BBC Tyne Old picture postcards of Newcastle Buildings and structures completed in 1350 Anglican cathedrals in England Churches in Newcastle upon Tyne Church of England church buildings in Tyne and Wear Newcastle upon Tyne, Anglican cathedral Newcastle upon Tyne, Anglican cathedral Tourist attractions