Sacriston St Peter

Parish Notes Durham

Sacriston St Peter

[Population 1911: 7,805]

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Church

The church of St. Peter is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and vestry: the western turret was blown down in 1903, and has since been simply replaced by a cross: the north aisle and a large vestry on the south side were added and the church restored in 1891-2, at a cost of £1,200: a south aisle was subsequently added, and the organ rebuilt: in 1905 a memorial window was placed to Mrs. Dorothy Hunter, who died in 1904: in 1909 a new chancel was erected, and during the years 1908-10 six stained glass windows were inserted, one of which is in memory to the reign of H.M. Queen Victoria: there are 700 sittings. The register dates from the year 1866. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Durham alternately, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Samuel Frost. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1914), page 324.]

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Monumental Inscriptions

IN MEMORIAM
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED
BY HIS COMRADES AND FRIENDS
TO THE MEMORY OF
FRANK DARLING,
WHO DIED 3RD SEPTEMBER 1913,
AGED 20 YEARS

Sacred to the Memory of
EDWARD J. FARROW,
WHO WITH HIS SHIPMATES
LOST THEIR LIVES BY THE WRECK OF
H.M.C. "ACTIVE." NOV 13^TH 1901.
Erected by his Family and Friends
Christ is all, and in all. Col.3.II.

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