Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas in Newcastle-upon-Tyne – Anglican Cathedral, the location of the chair the Bishop of Newcastle. This is the second tallest Church in the city and the sixth-tallest building in the city.

The Cathedral is named after Saint Nicholas, the patron Saint of sailors and boats. The first wooden Church built on this spot in the year 1091, burnt down in 1216, the First mention of the fact that this Cathedral bears the name of St. Nicholas, refers to 1194. By 1359, the Cathedral was rebuilt in stone Cathedral but it was only in 1882 in connection with the formation of the Newcastle diocese. The Cathedral is famous for its openwork tower, resembling a lantern. In the UK only three similar towers. This spire was built in 1448 and for many years served as a beacon for ships sailing on the river Tyne. The tower height is 62 meters.

The interiors of the Cathedral was badly damaged during the occupation by the Scots in 1640, and 1644, in the time of the nine-week siege by the Scottish army threatened to bomb the Cathedral tower. They abandoned this idea when in the tower placed Scottish prisoners. The tower is the belfry with 12 bells, three of them cast in the fifteenth century, and one, of course, bears the name of St. Nicholas.

The interiors of the Cathedral are made mostly in the early XX century on sketches by local artist Ralph Hedley, once in 1882 became a Cathedral. Medieval stained glass Windows were smashed during the Civil war, remained only a round stained glass window depicting the Madonna and child. All the other stained glass Windows in the Cathedral were made in the eighteenth century.

The Cathedral houses several memorials, one of them, made in the thirteenth century, depicts an unknown knight, most likely – the court of king Edward I. This is one of the oldest objects in the Cathedral.

For centuries, the Cathedral is famous for its musical and singing traditions.