Parish Notes Durham
Southwick St Columba
[Population 1911: 7,468]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 7,468]
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St. Columba's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed from Southwick and Monkwearmouth in 1884: the church, at Cornhill, built in 1889, at a cost of £5,846, is of red brick with stone dressings, in the Romanesque style, and consists of clerestoried nave and aisles: there is a marble chancel screen: the walls of the church are decorated with mural paintings of saints by James Edie Reid esq. and there are four stained windows: the church affords 800 sittings. The register dates from the year 1884. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £400, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Howard Fletcher MacMunn M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Durham Directory (1925), page 404.]
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