According to Press Association Sport reports they both discussed the team's troubling situation over the telephone before McClaren, who had taken training for the second successive day, left the Darsley Park training headquarters and headed home.
However, McClaren remained in charge of preparations for Monday night's trip to leaders Leicester and was due to take training again on Thursday.
Reports had suggested McClaren and Charnley were to hold showdown talks at St James' Park, but a face-to-face conversation did not materialise.
Former Newcastle winger Keith Gillespie urged the club, headed by owner Mike Ashley, to give McClaren more time.
Gillespie said on Sky Sports News: "It's typical Newcastle. I think the club need to come out and put it to bed because there's too much speculation. This club's got an important game on Monday night and an important 10 games coming up.
"It's important they remain in the Premiership because it's a massive club here and it needs Premiership football.
"You need to put this to bed, tell the manager he's got the job until the end of the season, keep us in the Premiership and then we go from there."
McClaren is a member of the club's football board but was not present when his three colleagues -- Charnley, chief scout Graham Carr and club ambassador Bob Moncur -- met on Monday to discuss the parlous on-field situation.
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