A church was built in Stannington in c.1190 AD. Some parts of the Norman church were incorporated into the current Church of St Mary the Virgin. A Saxon gravestone found here suggests an even earlier church may have once stood here. 

A railway station, located part way between the villages of Stannington and Netherton, was opened on the 1st of March 1847 by the Newcastle & Berwick Railway. It was initially named Netherton (the old name for the village of Nedderton), but was renamed to Stannington on the 1st of January 1892. The station was closed to passengers in 1958.

The Church of St Mary the Virgin at Stannington was built in 1871, designed by R.J. Johnson of Newcastle. The parish church stands on the site of an earlier Norman church, and incorporates it's 13th century north arcade.

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Stannington Parish Council was established in 1894.

"This water was brought to the village of Stannington by Viscount Ridley, in commemoration of the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. 1902" (inscription on the fountain). The fountain is located on Church Street on a triangular island at a road junction.

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Stannington Sanatorium opened on the 5th of October 1907, the UK's first tuberculosis sanatorium especially for children. Located near Stannington in Northumberland, the institution was established by The Poor Children's Holiday Association (a forerunner to todays Children North East charity).

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Gateshead Borough Lunatic Asylum (later renamed St Mary's Hospital) opened in 1914. It was located near North Saltwick and about 2 miles north-west of the village of Stannington. It was built on land purchaed from West Duddo Farm; construction began in 1910 and the hospital and grounds were designed by George T. Hine.

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A pair of bus shelters were presented to the village by Lord Ridley in commemoration of the coronation of King George VI in 1937. The distinctive bus shelters, by Laurence Whistler, stand on the old Great North Road.

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Stannington Village Hall, located off Main Street, was officially opened on the 24th of October 1959.

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In 1969 a footbridge was erected across the A1 Great North Road in the middle of Stannington village to make it safer for pedestrians to cross the increasigly busy road. The footbridge was situated on what is now Main Street, between the two bus shelters which had been built to commemorate the Coronation of 1937.

The NHS children's hospital, originally Stannington Sanatorium for children with tuberculosis, closed in 1984. The buildings were subsequently demolished. Records of the sanitorium have been preserved by Northumberland Archives.

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The A1 road was re-routed to the east of Stannington, to bypass the village. As such, the footbridge across the old A1 in the middle of the village, built in 1969, was no longer required - it was dismantled and re-erected at Lesbury over the River Aln.

St Mary's Hospital, near Stannington, closed in 1995. It had originally opened in 1914 as Gateshead Borough Lunatic Asylum. The hospital buildings were to remain derelict for almost 20 years, until the site was redeveloped for housing.

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The population of Stannington Civil Parish was recorded as 2,219 in the 2021 Census. This was almost a thousand people more than in the 2011 Census, which recorded 1,280 people. This was largely in association with new housing developments built at St Mary's Park, on Green Lane and St  Mary's Lane, including 'Stannington Park' and 'Stannington Mews' on the site of the former St Mary's Hospital. There were also new housing developments at Stannington Station.