Parish Notes Durham
Kelloe St Helen
[Population 1911: 5,295]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 5,295]
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The church of St. Helen is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a low tower containing 2 bells: on the tower is a sun-dial: the chancel was added in 1854, at a cost of £600; the east window is a memorial to Miss Wood, who died in 1856, and near which stands a very old stone cross, also two stone coffins found in the course of some excavations: the church has recently (1889) been renovated, and has 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1693. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £11, gross yearly value £1,000 including 230 acres of glebe with reisdence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1885 by the Rev. William Richard Burnet M.A. of Durham University, honorary canon of Durham and rural dean. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), p.215.]
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