Parish Notes Durham
Fir Tree St Mary the Virgin
[Population 1911: 2,579]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 2,579]
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The church of St. Mary, situate at Howden-le-Wear, in the most populous part, and erected in 1870 at a cost of £1,400, is a building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch, and a bell cote containing one bell: there are 260 sittings. The register dates from the year 1869. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £310, in a gift of the Bishop of Durham and Crown alternately, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Richard Howe, of St. Bees. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), p.34.]
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