Parish Notes Durham
Westoe St Thomas
[Population 1911: 5,526]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 5,526]
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WESTOE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1864: the church of St. Thomas, in Fowler street, erected in 1877 at a cost of £8,000, on the site of the old Westoe chapel of ease, built in 1818, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles and south porch: there are sittings for 600 persons. The register dates from the year 1864. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £294, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and held since 1919 by the Rev. Frederick Handel Harrison B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. A large hall, in Denmark street, was erected in 1889 in connection with this church, and will seat about 800 persons: it is adapted both for Sunday schools and for the purposes of a Young Men's Institute. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1921), page 343.]
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