South Shields St Jude

Parish Notes Durham

South Shields St Jude

[Population 1911: 9,196]

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St. Jude's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed September 4, 1883, out of Holy Trinity: the church, in Walpole street, erected in 1886, at a cost of £3,219, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings in the Late Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, two western porches, and a turret over the chancel arch containing 2 bells: there are 620 sittings, all free. The register dates from the year 1886. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £340, with residence, in the gift of the Crown and the bishop of Durham alternately, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Horace Sydney Sylvester Jackson L.Th. of Durham University. St. Jude's Parish Hall, built in 1885, at a cost of £1,637, for parochial purposes, will seat 750 persons. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1921), page 343.]

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