Parish Notes Durham

Coniscliffe St Edwin

[Population 1911: 461]

Church

The Church, which is dedicated to St. Edwin, consists of a western tower, a nave with a north aisle, and a chancel, chiefly in the early English style. The tower is embattled and surmounted with a lofty spire, which was used as a point of triagulation in the ordnance survey of 1851. The nave and chancel have the same external altitude, and the effect produced by the unbroken length of the church is very imposing. This venerable edifice underwent considerable repairs in 1844, at which time the triple lancet window at the east end was inserted. The chancel is fitted up with ancient stall seats and desks, whose massive carvings are very similar to those in St. Cuthbert's, Darlington. The church contains 500 sittings. There was formerly a chantry here dedicated to St. Mary, and worth £5 8s. per annum, besides five other chantries, viz., Bitry's, valued at £6 4s.; Our Ladie Masse, £4 9s. 2d.; St. Katherine's, St. Helen's, and the Twelve Apostles', £6 11s. The parish register commences in 1590. The living was originally a rectory, and was appropriated to St. Alban's Abbey. It is at present a vicarage, in the deanery of Darlington, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. It is valued in the Liber Regis at £7 18s. 1½d.; gross income £219. The vicar has the tithes of one farm, and Henry Howard, Esq., has the remainder of those in the parish. Rev. Henry A. Baumgartner, vicar. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), pages 351-52.]

| Top of page |

Townships

| Top of page |

Topography

| Top of page |

History

| Top of page |

The Parish Chest

| Top of page |

Non-Parochial Records

Newcastle Courant 29/1/1847 On Saturday the 21st inst., the children of the parish of Coniscliffe, near Darlington, amounting to 74, and their parents, were regaled with tea and cake, at the expense of P.H. Howard, Esq., of Corby Castle, Cumberland, lord of the manor, in celebration of the christening of his first born daughter.

Newcastle Courant 8/11/1850 The verdict of the jury in the Coniscliffe poisoning case was as follows:- "That the deceased had died from the effects of poison, but how, or by whom administered, there is no evidence to show." After the jury had delivered their verdict, the coroner, addressing Mrs Young, the wife of the deceased, said that there was not any reason to suspect that she had administered the poison to the deceased.

| Top of page |

Monumental Inscriptions

| Top of page |

© 1999-2005 Original Indexes