Parish Notes Durham
Boldon St Nicholas
[Population 1911: 3,828]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 3,828]
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The parish church of St. Nicholas, founded in 1220, is a building of stone in the early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north trancept, south porch and a western tower with small spire, containing a clock and 2 bells: in the chancel is a double piscina and triple sedilia; there is also a piscina in the south aisle; on the south side of the sacrarium is the effigy of an ecclesiastic, finely extended: there are two stained windows in the aisles, and the east window is a memorial to Mrs. Rawson, erected in 1851, and another, inserted in 1870, to the Rev. George E. Green, late rector: there are several tablets to the Tew, Andrews, Browell, Hollingsworth and Collinson families, and a tomb of one of the Hyltons: the church was reopened July 17th, 1876, after having been closed nearly twelve months for restoration, effected at a cost of £1,700: a new organ was erected in 1886, at a cost of £280: in 1825 two stone coffins were exhumed: the church affords 240 sittings. The register dates from 1570. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £720, including 146 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1889 by the Right Rev. Daniel Fox Sandford LL.D. late Bishop of Tasmania (1883-8). [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), pages 39-40.]
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SOF burials at Boldon in Christopher Trewhitt's orchard
from Archaelogia Aeliana Vol. XVI i (new series) 1894.
Year Day Mo. Name
1657 4 6 Eleanor Harper Wife of Roger Harper of Sunderland
1658 3 7 Margaret Jackson of So. Shields Widow
1660 15 6 Mary Turner D. of Thomas Turner of Gateshead
1660 21 6 Roger Harper of Sunderland
1661 29 6 Lancelot Wardell
1662 20 11 Robert Warham Daughter of William
1665 3 8 Johanna Linton D. of Robert & Joan Linton of South
Shields
1665 5 5 Thomas Turner late of Winlaton
1667 Levi Trewhitt Son of William Trewhitt of West Boldon 9
Months
1669 George Linton Son of Robert Linton and Joan Linton of
South Shields 1 9 3
1670 18 9 Margery Wardell daughter of Robert Wardell
1681 17 10 Ellenor Wife of George Carr of So. Shields
1682 14 12 George Carr Husband of Ellenor Carr of South Shields
Newcastle Daily Chronicle 10/2/1874 On Thursday night last, the new premises of the Boldon Working Men's Institute were duly opened out by a general meeting of the members, on which occasion Mr Matthew Heckels, resident viewer, delivered a suitable address.
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