Parish Notes Durham
Seaham St Mary the Virgin
[Population 1911: 485]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 485]
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The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a plain stone structure, consisting of nave and chancel, with square tower, and contains about 150 sittings, the whole of which are free. The parish register commences in 1646. From the earliest period of the records, the advowsan appears to have been attached to the manor, and to have been held alternately by the families of Hadham and Yeland. In 1475, the rectory was annexed to the Abbey of Coverham, in Yorkshire; and after the dissolution, the patronage became vested in the crown. The living is now a vicarage, in the patronage of the Marchioness of Londonderry, valued in the Liber Regis at £5 0s. 5d.; gross income £688. Vicar, the Rev. R.H. Baxter M.A. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), page 639.]
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