A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



declaration of trust 21 December 1918, consists 

 of a sum of /^loo 5 per cent. National War Bonds, 

 1928, with the official trustees. The income is 

 distributed among the poor of the city by the 

 mayoress. 



The parish of ST. NICHOLAS is possessed 

 of endowments known as Church Estates — 

 namely, 3 acres at Witton Gilbert, derived 

 under an Inclosure Award 12 May 1809, i a. 

 2 r. known as Whitesmocks and two tenement 

 houses in Durham, producing together in 1926 

 j^35 10s. lod. The official trustees also hold 

 a sum of j^i,630 4J. jd. consols, arising from the 

 sale in 1901 of four houses in Claypath, and from 

 sales of other lands, ;^20i India 3 per cent, stock 

 and fyji 15. lod. India 3i per cent, stock. The 

 income, amounting to j^8o 15/. yearly, is applied 

 for general church purposes. The charity is 

 regulated by a scheme of the Charity Commis- 

 sioners dated 9 May 1902. 



In 1572 John Frankelyn, by his will, gave 

 Js. ^d. yearly, to be paid by the Corporation of 

 Newcastle for the benefit of the poor of this 

 parish. 



In 161 7 Robert Surtees, by his will, gave out 

 of his house in the market place 6s. ^d. yearly 

 to the poor, which is received from the National 

 Provincial Bank, the present owners of the 

 premises charged. 



In 1675 Francis Callaghan charged his pro- 

 perty in the market place with the following 

 annuities : — 20.f. for distribution to the poor ; 

 £1 to the vicar ; £^ to the lecturer or preaching 

 minister, for a sermon on the anniversary of 

 testator's burial, and 5/. to the bellringers for 

 ringing the bells on that day. The yearly sum 



of £6 5/. is now received out of premises in Sadler 

 Street, Durham, and duly apphed. 



In 1702 Thomas Cooper, by his will, gave an 

 annuity of £^ 4/. to be distributed in bread, 2s. 

 every Sunday, among the poor attending divine 

 service. The annuity is paid out of lands at 

 Fishburn and distributed in bread. 



The parish of ST. MART-LE-BOW is 

 possessed of two houses and a garden, situate 

 in Sadler Street, Durham, and an allotment of 

 I a. 2 r. in Witton Lane, Sniperley, the income 

 of which, amounting to ^^73 yearly, is applied 

 in the insurance and repair of the fabric of the 

 parish church. 



In 1703 John Spearman, by his will, devised 

 3 a. situate at East or North Bow, Sheraton, to 

 the rector and his successors for ever, upon 

 trust that the rector should perform divine 

 service and administer the Sacrament to prisoners 

 in Durham Gaol, which then stood upon a site 

 adjoining the parish. The rector receives the 

 rents of the land so devised, a salaried chaplain 

 being attached to the gaol. 



The Church Estate in the parish of ST. 

 MART THE LESS originally consisted of 

 ancient burgage tenements, held from time 

 immemorial. The endowments now consist of 

 allotments in Framwcllgate Moor, containing 

 3 a. r. 3 1 p., producing ^^34 a year; £$6^ London 

 and North Eastern Railway 3 percent, debenture 

 stock, and ^60 consols, with the official trustees, 

 arising respectively from a sale in 191 1 of a 

 house in South Bailey, and of a stable in 1884, 

 producing in yearly dividends /18 8/. 6d. The 

 net income is applied in aid of general church 

 expenses. 



ST. OSWALD'S 



The ancient parish of St. Oswald* lay 

 around three sides of the city of Durham and 

 occupied all the right bank of the Wear, the 

 boundary following the course of the river from 

 Blackdene Burn southwards as far as Pelaw Wood 

 Beck, from the top of which it mounted the 

 moor, skirted Shirburn House and then, after 

 making a great loop eastwards, regained the 

 Wear. It thus included the modern districts of 

 Finchale, Framwcllgate and Framwellgate Moor, 

 Broom, Neville's Cross, Crossgate, Old and New 

 Elvet, Old Durham, Shinchfle, Croxdale and 

 Sunderland Bridge. At an early date part of 

 the parish was assigned to the chapelry of St. 

 Margaret, which obtained parochial rights in 

 the 15th century. From this time St. Oswald's 

 included the settlements^ of Old Durham, 

 Houghall, Burn Hall, Relley, Broom, Shinchffe, 



* For St. Oswald and his place in the history of 

 Durham, see V.C.H. Dur. ii, 2. 



* Some of these are represented now by farms or 

 country houses only. 



Butterby, Croxdale and Sunderland Bridge, while 

 St. Margaret's served Crossgate, Neville's Cross, 

 the Bellasis, Framwellgate, Sidgate and Crook- 

 haU, Aykley Heads, Framwellgate Moor, Dry- 

 burn, Windy Hills, Hag House, Cater House, 

 Newton by Durham, Frankland and Harber 

 House. With the growth of population,' how- 

 ever, the arrangement has undergone considerable 

 change.'' 



The civil parishes have experienced some 

 modification under the provisions of the Local 

 Government Act of 1894.* Neville's Cross was 

 then formed from Crossgate and Framwellgate 

 from the portion of Framwellgate within the 

 borough of Durham. In 1895 a part of the 

 civil parish of Bearpark was attached to the 

 parish of St. Oswald, while ten years later the 

 boundary of the borough was extended to in- 



3 See V.C.H. Dur. ii, 261, 273. 

 * For the ancient boundaries see Lans. MS. 902, 

 fols. 72-3. 



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