Shadforth St Cuthbert

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Shadforth St Cuthbert

[Population 1911: 3,429]

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The church of St. Cuthbert, erected in 1839, on a declivity on the north side of Shadforth Beck, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: the east window is stained: in 1891 the nave was restored and the chancel rebuilt at a cost of £1,950: there are 500 sittings. The register dates from the year 1839. The living is a rectory, yearly value £310, including 233 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Willmore Hooper, M.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1902), page 332.]

Plaque on chancel walls:

In Memory of
WILLIAM JONES of CASSOP HOUSE
WHO DIED JUNE 20TH 1809
AGED 63 YEARS
"Not lost but gone before."

Small brass plate on sanctuary panelling:

In Loving Memory of
FRANK HENRY HOPE 1902-1967
and
MARY ELIZABETH HOPE 1901-2002

Brass plaque on altar rails:

+ THESE ALTAR RAILS
WERE PRESENTED TO THE CHURCH
BY THE SHADFORTH BRANCH
OF THE MOTHERS' UNION.
Easter 1926

Large wooden? tablet in Sunday School area:

THIS CHURCH

was erected in the year 1839 it contains Five Hundred and Five sittings and in consequence of a grant from the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, build ing and repairing of Churches, and Chapels, Three Hundred and Fifty of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever. A Plan shewing the number and situation of the Free seats has been fixed up in the Vestry Room. R.G.L. Blenkinsopp M.A. Minister Henry Newby John Huntly Churchwardens

Stained glass window:

Erected by the members of the Guild of the Blessed Virgin to the glory of God and in affectionate memory of their first President Mildred Bertha Hooper who fell asleep in Jesus 15th May 1902.

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IN
LOVING
MEMORY OF
SARAH SHELDON
(SADIE)
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
JOHN GEO. & ANN HANNAH
GREENWELL,
WHO WAS
ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED
AT BARMOUTH, WALES;
AUGUST 1ST 1894
AGED 20 YEARS

SACRED
TO
THE MEMORY OF
THOMS GRAY
WHO DIED AT WHEATLEY HILL
OCTR 3rd 1871, AGED 44(?) YEARS.
Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord
Also THOMAS GRAY, SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AT ILLINOIS AMERICA
APRIL 17TH 1888 AGED 35 YEARS.
ALSO MARGARET GRAY, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AT WHEATLEY HILL, NOV 26TH 1893
AGED 74(?) YEARS.

IN EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
THOMAS HENRY PERKINS
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
1915-1929.
DIED 25TH FEB. 1929.
AND HIS DEVOTED MOTHER
ANNE ELIZABETH PERKINS
DIED 16TH APRIL 1929.