St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle
St Nicholas Cathedral has a splendid range of funerary monuments, ranging from medieval brasses to early twentieth-century neo-gothic. The onsite monuments, wall tablets and ledger stones, however, represent only a fraction of what was once in the church. A large number of tombs were removed during an internal reconstruction of the church in the late eighteenth century, and a great deal more reconstruction took place under the Victorians. ALthough there are some splendid early seventeenth century tombs, notably the Maddison monument, there is relatively little funerary sculpture dating before the 1780s. The present cathedral served as a parish church until 1882, when the diocese of Newcastle was created.