Denton St Mary

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Denton St Mary

[Population 1911: 178]

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The church of St. Mary, originally built in the 12th century and partly repaired in 1700, was rebuilt in 1810 and again in 1891, and is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and south porch; in the vestry lies a slab of blue marble, 5 feet 9 inches long, about 2½ feet wide at the head and 1 foot 8 inches at the foot, and in low relief is the mutilated effigy of a female apparently of the 12th century, and around the margin this inscription in Lombardic characters: "HICI GIST AVBREY DE COYNNERS SA COMPAYN." At the close of the 18th century, when Hutchinson wrote, there still remained many monuments or slabs, some being richly ornamented and bearing crosiers or other figures and inscriptions in Latin or Norman-French; but all these have now disappeared, as well, as the painted glass, and there only remain several slabs, some of which have held brasses: the church was rebuilt in 1891 at a cost of £1,400, and now affords 100 sittings: in the churchyard are memorials to the Rev. Joseph Craddock, a former incumbent, d. June 9, 1780, and to the Cully family, 1749-83. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1914) page 119.]

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