Grangetown St Aidan

Parish Notes Durham

Grangetown St Aidan

[Population 1911: 3,166]

The Parish
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Topography
History

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Monumental Inscriptions
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Church

St. Aidan's, Grangetown, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed from the parish of Ryhope in 1911. The church, which was partly erected in 1911, consists at present of a nave, one aisle and a temporary chancel, and has accomodation for 450. The register dates from the year 1911. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £369, in the gift of the vicar of Ryhope, and held since 1918 by the Rev. Edward Blythman Adamson M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1925), page 457.]

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Townships

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Topography

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History

By an Order in Council, gazetted on the 22nd December, 1911, part of the ecclesiastical parish of Ryhope St. Paul, containing 644 families (or separate occupiers) and 3,166 population at the date of the Census, was constituted the new ecclesiastical parish of Grangetown, St. Aiden. The new parish consists of part of Ryhope Civil parish, and that part of Sunderland Civil Parish in the ecclesiastical parish of Ryhope St. Paul.

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