Greatham St John

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Greatham St John the Baptist

[Population 1911: 1,039]

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The Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was rebuilt in 1792, and consists of nave, chancel, side aisles, and western tower. It is now (October 1855) undergoing considerable repairs and additions, by which means increased accomodation will be gained. The seats in the chancel are appropriated to the master and brethren of Greatham Hospital, and at the west end of the church are places for the inmates of Parkhurt's Hospital. The parish register commences in 1566. The living, a discharged vicarage, in the deanery of Stockton, is in the patronage of the master of Greatham Hospital; and the gross income is stated to be about £186. The glebe consists of nineteen acres in Greatham township, which have right of four "gates" on the marsh. The vicar has also the undivided moiety of fifty acres in the township of Seaton Carew, and the moiety of a farm-house and stables in the village of Seaton, and of ten "stints" on Seaton Marsh. The master of the hospital holds the whole of the great tithes of Greatham; but the vicar has the tithe of hay and all small tithes in the township of Claxton, and all small tithes but not the hay tithe in the township of Greatham, except from the hospital lands, which are entirely exempt. Rev. John Brewster, M.A., vicar. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), pages 480-81.]

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