FELLING is an extensive village and ecclesiastical parish, formed September 18, 1866, from the parish of Jarrow; it is situated about 1 ½ miles south-east from Gateshead, with a station on the Newcastle and Darlington railway, and is in the Chester-le-Street division of the county, Gateshead petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Chester, and archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. A Local Board district was formed here March 6, 1868, and the Local Government Act, 1858 (21 and 22 Viet, c. 98), was adopted by the district July 7, 1868; the district was enlarged under the Act 39 and 40 Viet. c. 203, confirming an order under the Public Health Act, 1875. The district is governed by a local board of 12 members. Christ Church, erected in 1866, is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle and south porch: the windows are stained, and there are sittings for about 480 persons. The register dates from the year 1866. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners £300, with residence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Edward Haythornthwaite. The vicarage is a stone house in the Gothic style, built in 1868, at a cost of about £1,500; architect, Mr. J. P. Pritchett, of Darlington. The Church Institute, situated in Sunderland road, is a building of stone, erected in 1885, at a cost of about £2,000, and consists of a large lecture hall, where lectures are given in winter, and science and art classes are held in connection with South Kensington: there are also smaller class rooms and a large reading room. The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Patrick, is a building of stone, and has sittings for between 600 and 700 persons. There are also Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, New Connexion and Free Methodist chapels here. The area is 374 acres; the population in 1881 was, of the ecclesiastical parish, 7,445, and of the Local Board district 16,376.

Felling Shore is situated on the Tyne side, about half a mile from the church.

High Felling adjoins Felling on the south.

Heworth School Board.

Offices, 5 Wesley terrace.

Meeting day, first Monday in each month.

Board Schools

Low Felling (mixed & infants), erected in 1882, for 479 boys & girls & 246 infants; average attendance, boys & girls, 367; infants, 201.

High Felling (mixed & infants), erected in 1877, for 500 boys & girls & 250 infants; average attendance, boys & girls, 450; infants, 240.

Felling Shore (infants), erected in 1882, for 163 children; average attendance, 79.

St. John’s Catholic (mixed & infants), for 600 children; average attendance, 450.