Search
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Entry in the Par.Reg. John White. Robert Thompson. The Church In its original state was a little picturesque, grey … village of Elwick Eastwards. The prospect from the church-yard stretches far and wide over the level cultivated … Esq. is the present owner. There was a chantry in the church of Elwick, founded by Walter de Cumba, who gave by …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… and foliage. The New street, which turns Eastwards to the church, and avoids the steep descent of Bottlebank, was built … Newcastle, called Chares. Oakwellgate Chare, High and Low Church Chare, St. Mary's Chare, Thomlinson's or Bailiff's … &c. Sir Germayne Cregton, Chantre prest within the said church, of the age of 4 score & on zears, sworne and …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Bishop Anthony Beke confirmed the endowment, and gave the Church of Greatham (not named in Stichill's charter) to the … the late alterations, appeared to have been the nave of a church 6, with corresponding arches, closed up on the North … structure. The chancel was entire; but the body of the Church, which seems to have consisted of a nave and transept, …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… eighty acres, by 2 s. rent, or one sparrow-hawke 2. The Church Stands in an open field, with only the parsonage and … a cross 5. A stone coffin, of the usual form, lies in the church-yard, on which Hutchinson read the name of Roger de … the other adjoining it on the West; in all, with the church-yard, about fourteen acres; and of a farm at …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Stockton Ward Northwards; for before 845 Eegred gave the Church of Durham, Billingham in Heorternesse 3; and when the … Hart, by the Earl of Cumberland to Lord Lumley 34. The Church. Robert Brus gave the churches of Hart and Stranton, … during the life of the same William, on condition that the church be duly served by two Canons of Guisbrough. A second …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Beamond-hill, then included in Haughton Constablery.) The Church Is a plain spacious structure, consisting of a … May 1806, aged 60 years. Against the outward wall of the church, near the South porch: Hic juxta, reliqu honorandi et … their daughter, 14 Nov. 1800. On an altar-tomb West of the church: Abraham Hilton, ob. 11th April 1778, tat. 57. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… or manor-house. There are monumental inscriptions in the church-yard for the families of Pemberton 45 and Garmonsway. … in Cotham for the support of St. Mary's Chantry in the Church of Dinsdale 67. It were an endless task to trace the … Hereberti Witto de Ketton. Thus the estate got into the Church; but how it got so completely out again is less easy …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… Richmond 14, Thomas Richmond 14, and James Dobson 14. The Church. The Church stands on high ground on the North side of the Green. … by two octagonal pillars supporting pointed arches. The Church is crowded with heavy galleries on the West and North. …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… the whole vill of Hunstanworth. But he granted his Church of Hunstanworth (of which he was probably the founder) … Two centuries later the Prior and Convent exchanged their Church of St. James of Hunstanworth, the advbwson, glebe, and … and Convent were impropriators of Pittington, and that the Church of Hunstanworth was contiguous to the place called …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… of Henry VIII. Dugd. Sum. to Parl. p. 497. edit. 1685. The Church Stands immediately on the brink of the river-bank. The … 34. Hutch, vol. III. p. 158. On a head-stone in Hurworth church-yard, placed against the West wall of the nave: 35 … only Monasteries that stood independent of the powerful Church of Durham. Nesham (saith Tanner, who places it by …