South Shields All Saints (Harton Colliery)

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South Shields All Saints (Harton Colliery)

[Population 1911: 8,703 incl. 1,123 persons enumerated in the South Shields Union Workhouse]

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HARTON COLLIERY, now called West Harton, and added to the borough November 9th, 1901, is an ecclesiastical parish formed August 19th, 1890, from Harton and St. Simon, South Shields: the church of All Saints, built in 1890 at a cost of £3,000, under the direction of Mr. C. Hodgson Fowler, architect, of Durham, is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave: the stained east window and the reredos are memorials of the founder, the Rev. Arthur Archbold Philpotts, sometime vicar of Harton, d. 1888: the organ was added in 1893: the church will seat 400. The register dates from the year 1890. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £315, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held since 1890 by the Rev. James Robson M.A., M.Litt. of Hatfield College, Durham. A site for a residence and the funds for its erection were provided in 1890 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1921), page 343.]

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