CITY OF DURHAM 



* 4 Sancta Maria ora pro nobis. IHC The 

 third is dated 1640 and is inscribed ' Soli Deo 

 Gloria ' and with various initials.'* 



The plate'* consists of a chalice and cover 

 paten of 1638 with the maker's mark W W, 

 the chalice inscribed round the bottom ' Remem- 

 ber John Hethe Esq the third and last of 

 Keepeyre : 1638' and the cover ' Desember 

 the 25th 1638 ' ; a standing paten made by Eli 

 Bilton of Newcastle in 1728, inscribed ' The Gift 

 of Mrs. Jane Lightley to Gilleygate Church ' ; 

 a flagon made by John Langlands of Newcastle, 

 1772, inscribed ' Presented to the Ancient 

 Parish Church of St. Giles, Durham, by Frances 

 Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry, 

 heiress of Heath, Sept. 1845 ' ; and a chalice of 

 1889 'Presented by R. J. P., Easter 1889 St. 

 Giles Church Durham,' a copy, but smaller, 

 of that of 1638." 



The registers begin in 1584," and the church- 

 wardens' accounts in 1664. 



The Church of ST. GILES 

 ADVOWSON was founded by Ranulph 

 Flambard in 1 114, and appro- 

 priated to the Hospital of Kepier. No vicarage 

 was ordained and probably the church was 

 served by one of the priests of the hospital. 

 At the Dissolution the church passed with other 

 property of this foundation to the Crown. In 

 1553 the church and rectory were sold'* to 

 John Cockburn, lord of Ormiston, who conveyed 

 it to John Heath, and thus the advowson passed 

 by the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter and heir 

 of John Heath, in 1642 to the Tempest family, 

 in which it descended to the Marquess of Lon- 

 donderry. On 6 December 191 3 the patronage 

 was conveyed by the Marquess of Londonderry 

 to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



In connection with the church there existed 

 a Gild of St. Giles, the gross yearly value '• 

 at the Dissolution being estimated at £j js. 2d. 

 and the clear value, less reprises, at ^^5 14/. \id. 

 There was also an obit of John Smith of the 

 yearly value of 4/. gross and 3/. less reprises. 



Some account of the Hospital of St. Mary 

 Magdalene has been given elsewhere. The 

 chapel here was accounted a parochial church, 



'■• Proc. Soc. Ant. {Ntwc), iii, 196. The initials on 

 the third bell are AE, RT, RO, MD. In 1552 there 

 were ' three bells in the steeple.' Inv. of Ch. Gds. 

 (Surt. Soc.) 142. 



'° Proc. Soc. Ant. {Newc), iii, 432. 



" The donor was Mr. R. J. Pearce. 



" Extracts are printed in Mem. of St. Giles 

 (Sun. Soc. xcv), 123-160. 



" Pat. 6 Edw. VI, pt. 7, no. 24. 



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

 App. vi, p. Ixiij. A slightly earUer survey gives a 

 gross value of ^6 15/. od. and a clear value of 

 X4 11^. 8|i. Chantry Certificate, Durham Roll 18, 

 no. 6s. 



for it was so described in a licence of Bishop 

 Nevill to the Prior and Convent in 1449 to 

 remove and rebuild the church on a safer and 

 more convenient site. The new church was 

 consecrated*" in 1451. After the dissolution 

 of the monastery of Durham the Dean and 

 Chapter provided the stipend of the incumbent. 

 Institutions to the rectory are found to the 17th 

 century,*^ but after the Restoration service was 

 discontinued owing to the ruinous state of the 

 church, the rector's stipend being transferred 

 to the librarian of the Chapter. The old church- 

 yard was turned into a garden in 1822. 



In 1448 we hear of a plot near the castle wall 

 and possibly in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, 

 where had been lately built ' a house called 

 " Mawdelyngyldhous." '^ 



The ecclesiastical parish of Belmont was 

 formed in 1852** and the advowson of the 

 vicarage is in the alternate gift of the Crown 

 and of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



The origin of the GiUigate 

 CHARITIES Church Estate is unknown, 

 except that some portion of 

 the property would appear to be derived from 

 the Hospital of St. Giles or Kepyer. It consists 

 of 15 a. 3 r. 33 p. of land with houses thereon, 

 situate at Gilesgate, and of the annual rental 

 value of about X^oo, and £5,090 gs. lod. consols, 

 producing £127 f,s. 4^. yearly, and £495 13/. ^d. 

 5 per cent. War Stock, producing £24 15/. id. 

 yearly. The income is applicable under a 

 scheme of the Court of Chancery, 28 February 

 1866, and later became regulated by a scheme of 

 the Charity Commissioners of 6 October 1922. 

 Out of the income of this estate fund ;^I50 is 

 paid yearly to the official receivers for investment 

 to form the Estate Improvement Fund. The re- 

 maining income of this estate fund is applicable as 

 to one part to the trustees of the St. Giles School 

 Fund, one part to the Belmont School Fund, 

 four parts to the parish church of St. Giles and 

 two parts to the parish church of St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene, Belmont. This charity is also possessed 

 of a fund called the Chantry Fund, consisting of 

 ^^5,633 8/. id. 2i per cent, consols, representing 

 the proceeds of sale of a property known as the 

 Legge's Tenement, otherwise ' The Woodman ' 

 public house, the net income of which is appHc- 

 able, in equal moieties, in the parish of St. Giles 

 and district of Belmont, towards providing a 

 curate to assist the respective incumbents. The 

 charity further has a fund called St. Giles' 

 Income, which comprises the sums of ^^400 

 5 per cent. National War Bonds (1928) and 

 2^240 lOJ. lod. 5 per cent. War Stock, standing 

 to an account with the official trustees entitled 



**> Surtees, Dur. iv, 69. 



82 Surtees, Dur. iv, 37 n.f. 



** Lond. Gaz. 10 Feb. 1852, p. 370. 



81 Ibid. 



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