Cockfield St Mary

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Cockfield St Mary the Virgin

[Population 1911: 5,206]

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The Church is an unpretending structure, consisting of a nave and chancel, withouth side aisle, or tower, and will accommodate about 200 persons. The pulpit is of oak, ornamented with some antique carving; the font is a large actagonal bason of freestone; and the piscina still remains in the chancel wall, near the communion table. The arms of Charles II. are sculptured on the north wall of the chancel; and near it is a painting of the royal arms, dated 1726. There is a gallery at the west end of the nave. The parish register commences in 1578. The living is a discharged rectory in the deanery of Darlington, with Staindrop vicarage annexed, and in the patronage of the Duke of Cleveland. It is valued in the Liber Regis at £9 18s.; gross income, £200. The glebe consists of eighteen acres of land; but the rectory house, an old thatched building nort of the church, has long been an unfit residence for a clergyman. Rector, Rev. H.C. Lipscombe, M.A., of Staindrop, for whom the Rev. Peter Barlow officiates as curate. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 439.]

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