Grindon St James

Parish Notes Durham

Grindon St James the Greater

[Population 1911: 556]

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Church

The Old Church, dedicated to St. Thomas a Beckett, is a plain structure, consisting of nave and chancel, and stands in a field a little to the east of the road between Durham and Stockton. The south porch is called Fulthorp's porch, and contains some sculptured slabs. This edifice, having become much delapidated, a new church was erected and consecrated at Thorp-Thewles in 1848, since which period the old church has ceased to be used as a place of worship; but the church-yard continues to be reserved as a place of interment for parties possessing a family burial ground. The New Church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is in the arly English style, and consists of a nave and chancel, with 175 sittings, 120 of which are free and unappropriated. The parish register commences in 1566. The living, a discharged vicarage, in the deanery of Stockton, is valued in the Liber Regis at £4 11s. 5¼d.; gross income £200 per annum. The vicarial tithes are commuted for £100, and an annual donation of £60 from the master of Sherburn Hospital. The glebe consists of about 79 acres. Patron, the masters of Sherburn Hospital; vicar, the Rev. William Cassidi, B.A. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), pages 484-85.]

The Lych gate has this inscription:

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD
THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM CASSIDY B.A.
VICAR 1840-1882

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Monumental Inscriptions

IN
LOVING
MEMORY
OF THE
REV. WILLIAM CASSIDY, B.A.
FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS
VICAR OF THIS PARISH,
WHO ENTERED INTO HIS REST
ON THE
27TH DAY OF AUGUST; 1882
AGED 68 YEARS.
"I LOOK FOR THE RESURRECTION
OF THE DEAD, AND THE LIFE OF
THE WORLD TO COME."

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