Parish Notes Durham

Byers Green St Peter

[Population 1911: 3,076]

Church

The Church is a neat building, dedicated to St. Peter, and was consecrated on the 10th July, 1845. It is in the early English style, and possesses 283 sittings, 212 of which are free and unappropriated, in consequence of a grant having been received from the Incorporated Society for Building and Repairing Churches. The residue of the cost of erection was defrayed by the Bishop of Durham. The church consists of nave and chancel, with an entrance porch, surmounted by a bell turret on the west. The interior is neatly decorated, and the pulpit consists of a curious selection of antique carvings. The eastern window is of stained glass, and contains representations of the crucifixion, and Sts. Peter and Andrew. There is also a stained window in the body of the church, to the memory of William H. Robson, who was killed by an explosion of gas in Byers Green Colliery. The living is in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham, who, in 1853, gave £100 towards the purchase of a piece of land to be attached to it. The value of the living is £180 per annum. A parsonage house was built in 1851, to which £350 was contributed from the Maltby fund. Rev. James W. Hick, incumbent. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), pages 295-96.]

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The Parish Chest

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Non-Parochial Records

Newcastle Courant 5/9/1845 The Rev. Robert Gray, A.M., Incumbent of Whitworth, has been presented by the Bishop of Durham to the vicarage of Stockton.

Newcastle Courant 28/11/1845 The Rev. Arthur Duncombe Shafto, incumbent of Byers Green, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Durham to the Perpetual Curacy of Whitworth, vacant by the appointment of the Rev. Robert Gray to the vicarage of Stockton.

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Monumental Inscriptions

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