John and Benjamin Green

Although they did carry out some commissions separately, they were given joint credit for many of their projects, and it is difficult to attribute much of their work to a single individual.

Their work was predominantly church and railway architecture, with a sprinkling of public buildings that includes their masterpiece, Newcastle's Theatre Royal.

John Green was born on 29 June 1787 at Newton Fell House, Nafferton, two miles north of Ovington, Northumberland.

The two he built for the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, at the Ouseburn and at Willington Quay remain in use, though the timbers were replaced with wrought iron in a similar lattice pattern in 1869.

The Greens worked as railway architects and it is believed that all the main line stations between Newcastle and Berwick upon Tweed were designed by Benjamin.

Both of these structures were part of the re-development of Newcastle city centre in neo-classical style by Richard Grainger, and both exist today.

It was built as a half-sized replica of the renowned Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, and was dedicated to John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada.

Benjamin Green survived his father by only six years, and died in a mental home at Dinsdale Park, County Durham on 14 November 1858.

Styford Hall and Stables, Styford, Northumberland, before 1820[1] Cresswell House, Cresswell, Northumberland, 1821 (demolished 1931, builder: John Green, architect: John Shaw)[2] Inn at Thurston (now the Northumberland Arms, Felton), 1820s[2] Scotch Church, Blackett St, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1821 (demolished 1903)[1] Presbyterian Chapel, Newcastle, 1822 (demolished 2011)[3] Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle, 1822–1825[3] East Cocklaw Farm, Wall, Northumberland, 1824[2] Hallington New Houses Farm, Hallington, Northumberland, 1820s[2] Heckley High House Farm, Alnwick, Northumberland, 1820s[2] Thornborough High Barns Farm, Aydon, Northumberland, 1820s (probable attribution)[2] Thornborough Kiln Farm, Aydon, Northumberland, 1820s[2] Farms on the Beaufront Estate, Corbridge, Northumberland, 1824[3] St Peter's Church, Falstone, Northumberland, 1824–1825[3] Westgate Hill Cemetery, Newcastle, 1825–1829 (lodge demolished 1970, railings and gates removed, piers and basic layout remains)[3] Ingram Farm,Ingram, Northumberland, 1826[2] Park Farm, Hulne Park, Alnwick, Northumberland, 1827, and other farms for the Duke of Northumberland, 1820s[2] Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Wycliffe, County Durham, 1829–1831[1] Hawks Cottages, Gateshead, 1830 (demolished 1960) Scotswood Chain Bridge, Scotswood, Newcastle, 1831, (demolished 1967)[3] Church of St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas, Stella, 1831–1832[4] Blackwell Bridge, Darlington, 1832[1] Holy Trinity Church, Usworth, Tyne and Wear 1832[1] Holy Trinity Church, Washington, Tyne and Wear, 1832 Bellingham Bridge, Bellingham, Northumberland, 1834[1] Lintzford Bridge, Gateshead, 1834[1] Holy Trinity Church, Stockton-On-Tees, 1834–1835 (destroyed by fire 1991, shell survives)[5] Holy Trinity Church, Dalton (near Stamfordham), Northumberland, 1836[3] Vicarage of St Alban, Earsdon, Tyne and Wear, 1836[3] Church of St Alban, Earsdon, Tyne and Wear, 1836–1837[3] St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Alnwick, Northumberland, (now Bailiffgate Museum) 1836[3] Church of the Holy Saviour, Newburn, Newcastle, 1836–1837[3] Poor Law Guardians Hall, North Shields, 1837[3] Master Mariners Homes, Tynemouth, 1837–1840[6] Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1837[3] 1-7 Market Street, Newcastle, 1837[3] North side of Shakespeare Street, Newcastle, 1837[3] 34-44 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, 1837[3] Parish Hall of the Church of the Holy Saviour, Newburn, Newcastle, 1838[3] Column of Grey's Monument, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1838[3] Corn Exchange, Groat Market, Newcastle, 1838 (demolished 1974)[3] St Hildas Church, Middlesbrough, 1838 (demolished 1969)[1] Willington Viaduct, Wallsend, 1837–1839[3] Ouseburn Viaduct, Newcastle, 1837–1839[3] Skelton Bridge, Nether Poppleton, North Yorkshire (Rail; East Coast Main Line), 1839[1] Church of the Holy Saviour, Tynemouth, 1839–1841[3] Newham Barns Farm (Newham Hall), Ellingham, Northumberland, 1840s[2] Ilderton Vicarage, Ilderton, Northumberland, 1841[3] Streatlam Castle, County Durham, alterations, 1841 (demolished 1959)[1] Streatlam Castle South Lodges, County Durham, 1841[1] Church of St. Bartholomew, Whittingham, Northumberland, 1840 (rebuilding of mediaeval church)[3] The Red Cottage, Whitburn, Tyne and Wear, 1842[1] Trustee Savings Bank, Barrington St., South Shields, 1842 Holy Trinity Church, Cambo, Northumberland, 1842[3] Church of St. Mary, Woodhorn, Northumberland, 1843-4 (rebuilding of mediaeval church)[3] Holy Trinity Church, Horsley-on-Rede, Northumberland, 1844[1] The Earl of Durham's Monument (Penshaw Monument), Sunderland, 1844 St Edwin's, Coniscliffe, Co. Durham, 1844 (restoration of mediaeval church) 40–44 Moseley Street, Newcastle, 1845[3] Witham Testimonial Hall, Barnard Castle, County Durham, 1846[1] Old Railway Station, Tynemouth Rd, Tynemouth 1846–1847[3] 20 stations on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Northumberland, 1847 (now the East Coast Main Line):[7] Killingworth (demolished 1973), Cramlington (demolished), Netherton (called Stannington from 1892), Morpeth, Longhirst, Widdrington, Chevington (crossing keeper's cottages only), Acklington, Warkworth, Bilton (called Alnmouth from 1892, demolished), Lesbury, Longhoughton (demolished c. 1968), Little Mill (demolished 1960s), Christon Bank, Fallodon (demolished 1960), Chathill, Newham (crossing keepers' cottages only), Lucker (demolished 1960), Belford, Beal (demolished 1979), Scremerston, Tweedmouth (demolished 1964) Holy Trinity Church, Seghill, Northumberland, 1849[3] 6 stations on the Tweedmouth-Kelso-St Boswells Railway Line, Northumberland/ Borders Region, 1849:[1] Velvet Hall, Norham, Coldstream (demolished), Sunilaws (uncertain attribution), Carham (demolished c.1968), Sprouston Newcastle Joint Stock Bank, St Nicholas Square, Newcastle, c.1850[3] Nicholson House (now Carlton House), Mowbray Road, Sunderland, 1850[1] Bede Tower, Burdon Road, Sunderland, 1851[1] 4 stations on the Alston Branch Railway, Northumberland, 1852:[1] Alston, Featherstone Park, Lambley, Slaggyford[1] St Paul's Church, Elswick, Newcastle, 1854[3] All Saints Cemetery, Jesmond, Newcastle 1854[3] Sailor's Home, 11 New Quay, North Shields, 1856[3] United Free Methodist Church, North Shields, 1857[3] St Mary the Virgin, Rye Hill, Newcastle, 1858 (demolished 1960s)[3] St Mary the Virgin Almshouses, Rye Hill, Newcastle, 1858 (possible attribution))