CITY OF DURHAM 



parish, and messuages in Elvet, 'Flesshewergate' 

 and elsewhere.*' The patronage was vested in 

 the heirs of the founder, Gilbert de Elvet. The 

 clear value'* at the Dissolution, less reprises, was 

 estimated at ^^ii 8/. lod. In 1608 the King 

 granted to Simon Wiseman and Richard Mare 

 the lands of this chantry. 



A third foundation was that of the Rood Mass 

 priest, the clear yearly value^ of which at the 

 Dissolution, less reprises, was £'i ys. Sd. There 

 were also two gilds attached to this church, one 

 of St. Oswald,- and the other of the Holy 

 Trinity, and in 1472 the Prior of Durham 

 demised to John Tange, alderman, and Thomas 

 Wade and Thomas Watson, brethren of the 

 gild of the Holy Trinity, three waste burgages in 

 New Elvet, on which the alderman and brethren 

 of the gild proposed to build their new gild 

 house. In this gild house the hostiller of the 

 Priory of Durham should have full liberty to 

 hold his borough court of Elvet.^ 



The Anchorage near St. Oswald's church- 

 yard has already been mentioned.* After the 

 Dissolution its possession led to an entertaining 

 quarreP between rival grantees. 



The chapel of ST. MARGARET, originally 

 dependent on the Church of St. Oswald, was 

 probably founded in the 12th century. In 1384 

 the Prior and Convent authorised the perform- 

 ance of all sacramental rites in the chapel, 

 except marriage and burial, and in 143 1 these 

 exceptions were removed and a commission 

 issued for the consecration of the chapel and 

 cemetery.* For all practical purposes St. Mar- 

 garet's thus became a separate parish, though a 

 reminder of its old status was found in the small 

 dues paid to the mother church, as, for example, 

 ' hoUy bread silver ' and in the attendance of 

 one of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's at 

 St. Oswald's on occasions of special ceremony.' 

 The patronage after the Dissolution was vested 

 in the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



Within this chapel was a chantry of Our Lady, 

 founded* by one Ralph before 1343. In 1338 a 

 tenement in Crossgate was charged with the 

 provision of two lbs. of wax for two lights to 

 burn before the altar of St. Mary, and in 1355 a 



*' Pat. 6 Hen. IV, pt. i, m. 30. 

 '* Injunctions and Ecd. Proc. Bp. Barnes (Surt. 

 Soc), App. vi, p. Ix. 



* Injunctions and Eccl. Proc. Bp. Barnes (Surt. Soc), 

 App. vi, p. Ix ; Harl. R. D 36. 



2 Surtees, op. cit. iv, 81. 



* Ibid. n. c. 

 *F.C.H.Dur.u, 130. 



6 Depos. and Other Eccl. Proc. (Surt. Soc), 296 

 et seq. 



' Surtees, op. cit. iv, 127. 



' Depos. and Other Eccl. Proc. (Surt. Soc), iii, 

 276 et seq. 



* Surtees, op. cit. iv, 130. 



burgage in South Street was charged with izd. 

 due to the chaplain of St. Mary's altar. At the 

 Dissolution the gross revenue' of the chantry of 

 Our Lady was £j 13;. ^d., and the clear value, 

 less reprises, £^ p. jid. Benefactions*** to the 

 lights in St. Margaret's chapel are found in 

 1327 and 1328, and in the i6th century several 

 foundations for obits" and anniversaries existed 

 here. The curates of this chapel were at one 

 time almost dependent on the offerings and dues 

 of the parishioners, but by the action of the 

 Dean and Chapter of Durham and the Governors 

 of Queen Anne's Bounty the value of the 

 chapelry has been considerably increased. There 

 was in Framwellgate before the Reformation a 

 Gild of St. Margaret^ probably connected 

 with this church, and as early as 1 3 16 we hear 

 of a burgage in Framwellgate called the ' Gyld- 

 hous.' This was probably the burgage some- 

 time belonging to the Gild of St. Margaret 

 which in 1574 lay to the north of the burgage 

 called Paynter's Place.*^ 



The division of the ecclesiastical parish was 

 foreshadowed in 1826 by the building of a chapel 

 of ease at Shincliffe,'* dedicated to the honour of 

 St. Mary the Virgin, the parish of Shincliffe 

 being created five years later.** Sunderland 

 Bridge and Hett (from the parish of Merring- 

 ton) were next formed into the district chapelry 

 of Croxdale in 1843," and in 1858 part of the 

 chapelry of St. Margaret's was assigned to the 

 new district of St. Cuthbert," the church of 

 which was built in 1862. A still further altera- 

 tion was made in St. Margaret's in 1871 by the 

 building of the chapel of ease of St. Aidan, and 

 in 1896, when a chapel of ease was built and 

 dedicated to St. John the Evangelist.** At 

 Broom, the church of St. Edmund, king and 

 martyr, was built in 1879, when a parish was 

 formed, and a further mission chapel of St. 

 Katherine was set up in 1883. 



The Church estate in the 

 CHARITIES parish of ST. OSWALD origi- 

 nally consisted of allotments on 

 Elvet Moor, containing 4^ acres, and four 

 burgage tenements in Hallgarth Street, which 

 were sold in 1877 and the proceeds invested in 

 jf 1,029 J^-^- 9^- consols, with the official trustees. 

 The annual dividends, amounting to j^25 14J. %d., 



» Injunctions and Eccl. Proc. Bp. Barnes (Surt. Soc), 

 App. vi, p. be ; Harl. R. D 36. 



** Surtees, op. cit. iv, 127 n. c. 



" Harl. R. D 36. 



*2 Surtees, op. cit. iv, 136. 



13 Ibid. 61. 



** Mackenzie and Ross, Dur. ii, 440. 



15 Lotid. Gaz. 2 Aug. 1831, p. 1563. 



*« Ibid. 5 Sept. 1843, p. 2950. 



1' Ibid. 10 Sept. 1858, p. 4096. 



w Reg. of St. Margaret's, Dur. (Dur. and North. 

 Par. Reg. Soc), p. vi. 



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