Sunderland St John

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Sunderland St John

[Population 1911: 6,472]

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St. John's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed by an Order in Council dated February 9, 1875, under the provisions of 1 and 2 Vict. c.106 and 2 and 3 Vict. c.49: the church, near the Moor, on land given by Marshall Robinson esq. of Herrington, was erected by public subscription in 1709, as a chapel of ease to the parish church, the design and much of the cost being furnished by John Thornhill esq. and consists of chancel and nave, north and south porches and a western tower containing one bell: the organ was presented by Queen Charlotte, and the fittings throughout are of Spanish oak: the church has been restored since 1873 at a cost of £1,029, and a further renovation was carried out in 1901, at a cost of over £3,000: there are 550 sittings in the restored church. The register dates from the year 1874. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £460, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1914 by the Rev. Edgar Jackson L.Th. of Durham University. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1925), page 455.]

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