St Paul’s Church was built in 1867 as a Chapel of Rest within the Parish of Shotton with Haswell.
This Parish itself had only been established in 1863, prior to that both Haswell and Shotton Colliery had been in the Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Easington Village.
In 1870 the separate Parish of Haswell was established with St Paul’s as the Parish Church.
It remained as a separate Parish until 1983 when we joined with the Parish of Holy Trinity South Hetton to form the United Benefice of Haswell and South Hetton.
Change was forced upon them once more in 1999 when they joined with St Saviour’s Shotton Colliery and St Bartholomew’s Thornley to form a United Benefice of Haswell, Shotton Colliery and Thornley
In 2004 the church of St Bartholomew’s (the Parish Church of Thornley) was effectively condemned as it was estimated over £250,000 was needed to make the building safe. The peoples of Thornley accepted that their church must close. They and the people of Haswell voted to form a new Parish of Haswell/Thornley with St Paul’s as the Parish Church.
This is a simple multi-cache which you can work out the coordinates by looking at the information board. I would suggest doing the Haswell War Memorial cache at the same time as this cache.
The cache is located a short drive away at N 54 47.ABC W 001 24.DEF
A = 9th digit of the phone number minus 2nd digit of the phone number
B = Sundays service is at ?.15am
C =Number of letters in the vicar's surname PLUS 1
D = Last number of the phone number
E = Number of letters in middle word of the second line
F = Number of days mentioned on the information board minus 2
Checksum for numbers is 25
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