A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Of Rowland's children, Rowland, the eldest, in- 

 herited Dinsdile ; another was the artist, Francis Vlace, 

 already mentioned.*' Rowland died in i 7 i 3, and was 

 succeeded by a son of the same name, who died in 

 1717 without issue, his four surviving sisters being his 

 co-heirs."* They sold Dinsdale to Cuthbert Routh in 

 171 8-2 2,*'' and Cuthbert in 1752 left four daughters, 

 Judith, Elizabeth, jane and Dorothy,^" as co-heirs, who 

 in 1770 sold the manor and most of the lands to 

 Major-General John Lambton for j([ I 5,000, having 

 sold parts of it previously to Robert Killinghall and 

 George Hoar." 



The manor descended in i 794 from Major-General 

 Lambton to William Henry his son, who died in 

 1797. His ton John George Lambton first Earl of 

 Durham built the house called Dinsdale Park as a 

 hunting residence about 1825 and died in 1840. 

 He was succeeded by George, second Earl of Durham, 

 who about 1844 sold it to Henry George Surtees, 

 Sheriff of Durham in 1862. He died unmarried in 

 1879, and Dinsdale passed to his brother, the Rev. 

 Scott Frederic Surtees, who in 1889 was succeeded 

 by another brother, Nathaniel. Nathaniel died in 

 1 902 and his son John Ralph Surtees in 1 9 1 4. The 

 property passed to his cousin Aubone Surtees, who 

 about 1914 sold Dinsdale Park, the Spa, the golf 

 course and Wood Head Farm to Sir Henry S. M. 

 Havelock-Allan, retaining, however, the manor-house, 

 the manor farm, Fishlocks and Ashen Farm. Aubone 

 Surtees died in 1923 and his widow and son Aubone 

 conveyed their estate to Henry Patrick Surtees, 

 brother of Aubone the elder, the present owner. 



Robert Place of Dinsdale, who compounded for 

 'delinquency' in 165 1, was perhaps the younger 

 brother of Rowland.'- Neasham Priory is stated to 

 have owned Hungerle in DinsJale ;'' possibly it was 

 the same as two closes called Endell in Dinsdale, 

 part of the priory lands granted to James Lawson 

 in 1540.'* The Lawsons afterwards had land in the 

 parish.^' Robert Botcherley was the owner of 

 Hungerle about 1820."' 



STODHOE has been mentioned above in the 

 account of the Surtees estates ; it was included in the 

 13th and 14th centuries in the manor held by the 

 Surtees family for one knight's fee of the lord of 

 Barnard Castle. Subsequently it was called a manor 

 of itself, and was described as held of the Graystocks.^" 

 In 1645 a free rent of 11. for Stodhoe was due from 

 Marmaduke Wilson to Sir Francis Howard, lord of 

 Neasham.'* On the partition of the Surtees lands in 

 1552 Stodhoe fell to the descendants of Katherine 

 Place. In 1605 John Ward of Hurworth purchased 

 lands from Robert Brandling and Jane his wife,'' 

 and after his death in 1 63 1 he was said to have held 

 a fourth part of this manor of the king. His heirs were 

 two granddaughters, children of his son George.'"* 



About 1820 Stodhoe was owned by Henry Chap- 

 man.' 



The freeholders in 1684 were Rowland Place, Sir 

 William Blackett, and Alderman Ramsay of Newcastle.' 

 In 1699 Charles Turner acquired a piece of land in 

 Dinsdale from Sir William Blackett and Julia his wife.^ 

 The church of Sr. 70// A' BAPTIST 

 CHURCH consists of a chancel 28 ft. 6 in. by 

 1 3 ft. 9 in., with north vestry and organ 

 chamber, nave 27 ft. 6 in. by 15 ft., south chapel 

 28 ft. 3 in. by 13 ft., south porch, and west tower 

 8 ft. square, all internal measurements. 



The site is an ancient one, and fragments of pre- 

 Conquest sculptured stones, including two cross-heads, 

 the lower part of a cross-shaft, and half of a hog-back 

 stone have been found.^ No part of the present 

 structure, however, is older than about 1 1 96, at which 

 time the church appears to have consisted of a chancel 

 with an aisleless nave. Early in the 14th century 

 the chapel of St. Mary was added on the south side of 

 the nave, the chancel was reconstructed and the west 

 tower built. In 1875, '^^ building being very 

 dilapidated, a restoration was carried out which, while 

 revealing many ancient features, necessitated practically 

 an entire refacing of the church. Almost the only old 

 masonry now remaining anywhere outside is the pink 

 sandstone in the chancel ; the new work is of red 

 sandstone. The chancel, nave and south aisle are 

 under separate gabled roofs of slate, and all the 

 windows, with one exception, are modern, though 

 preserving to a large extent the old designs, and the 

 walls are plastered internally. 



The chancel has a three-light pointed east window 

 with geometrical tracery and two square-headed win- 

 dows of two trefoileJ lights on the south side. Of 

 these only the jambs, head, and sill of the eastern- 

 most of the south windows are old. Between the 

 windows is a disused priest's doorway with modern 

 shouldered arch ; the window at the east end of the 

 north wall is similar to those opposite. West of this 

 the wall is open to the organ-chamber by a modern 

 arch. In the restoration of 1875-6 a 'rude stone 

 sedile ' (now removed) and a piscina were discovered 

 in the chancel, and a double piscina in the chapel. 

 The arches of the piscinae were restored ; the bowls, 

 however, are untouched, and in a perfect condition. 

 Part of a round-headed window belonging to the late 

 12th-century church was also exposed in the chancel 

 at the same time. The pointed chancel arch is of 

 two chamfered orders continued to the floor without 

 imposts, with hood-mould towards the nave termi- 

 natingin carved human heads. The arch has apparently 

 been re-chiselled. The roof and the chancel fittings 

 are modern. 



The arcade between the nave and the chapel is ol 

 two pointed arches of two chamfered orders springing 



*' Surtees, loc. cit. 



w Ibid. ; Rtg. of . . . DmiJah (Soc. 

 Antiq. of Newcastle), 24. 



** Three of the sisters Katherine, Anne 

 and Elizabeth granted three parts of the 

 manor to Cuthbert Routh in 17 19 

 (Surtees, loc. cit.) and the other sister, 

 Mary, wife of William Waines, sold her 

 fourth part to him in 1722 (Dur. Rec. cl. 

 12, no. 2 1 [2] ). 



»" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 125, no. 4. 

 Judith and Elizabeth married respectively 



George Baker of Elmore and James Bland 

 of Hurworth. 



^' Ibid, no.4, 8 ; Surtee8,op.cit.iii,233. 



*' Royaliit Comp, Papers in Dur. (Surt. 

 Soc), 309. 



*^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 241. 



»* L. an J P. Hen. yill, xvi, g. 107 (i). 



*' Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xliT, App. 45?, 



459- 



•• Surtees, op. cit. iii, 239. 



»■ Reg. PaUi. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 801 ; Cat. In J. p.m. (Edw. II), V, 412 ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 171, no. 13, 



220 



" Royalii Comp. Papers in Dur. (Surt. 

 Soc), 30. See Surtees, op. cit. iii, 226, 

 for the Wilson estate. 



^ Surtees, loc cit. ; Dur. Rec. cl. 12, 

 no. 2 (2). 



'"' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, hie 186, no. 78. 



' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 239. 



' Ibid. 



» Dur. Feet of F. Hil. 10 Will. III. 



* See y.C.H. Dur. i, 224 ; Reliquary, 

 riii, 28-9. The hog-back stone is 

 inside the church at the east end of the 

 nave. 



