Parish Notes Durham
Crook St Catherine
[Population 1911: 9,788]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 9,788]
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The church of St. Catherine, restored in 1877-78 at a cost of £1,500, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and six bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a western bell-cote containing one bell: there is a very beautiful font: the church will seat about 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1845. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £59, net yearly value £291, in the gift of the rector of Brancepeth, and held since 1872 by the Rev. John King M.A. of Durham University. [Kelly's Durham and Northumberland Directory, (1890), page 59.]
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Newcastle Courant 19/5/1848 (3e) CROOK.- The owners of Woodifield Colliery (Messrs Bolckhow and Vaughan), have set aside a part of a large field, to be divided amongst their workmen for garden ground; where the men may be daily seen very industriously employed when not at work in the pit.- A severe accident occured on the 8th inst., to one of Mr Pease's workmen, at Roddymoor, near Crook, which rendered amputation of the thigh necessary the same evening.
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