STOCKTON WARD 



GRINDON 



Stichrll, Bishop of 

 Durham. Or a hend lahU 

 cotned azure luitk a moUt 

 argent befween tivo 

 bezants on the bend. 



The hospital of God was founded 

 CHARITIES by Robert Stlchell, Bishop of Durham, 

 by letters patent bearing date the Sun- 

 day before the Epiph.my 1272, and is administered 

 by the master and brethren under the provisions of a 

 scheme of the High Court of 

 Chancery of 31 July 1866, 

 and schemes of the Charity 

 Commissioneri of 27 April 

 1883, I November 1910, and 

 18 June 1918. The trust 

 estate consists of the buildings 

 and 1,700 acres orthercabouts, 

 certain reserved rents on un- 

 expired leases, a tithe rent- 

 charge of about X'*°» ^^^ 

 income from real estate 

 amounting to about ^(^5,000, 

 and j^i,o64 17/. from per- 

 sonal estate, being the divi- 

 dends on India 3 per cent. stock 



and consols, 5 per cent. War Stock, and 3 J per cent. 

 Conversion Stock with the official trustees. The 

 scheme directs that there shall be thirteen 

 in-brethren, who shall each receive ^(^12 per annum 

 and clothing, and thirteen out-brethren, who 

 shall each receive £z6 per annum, with medical 

 attendance, with provision for the extension of the 

 benefits, when the funds should warrant, to forty 

 brethren. The number of out-brethren at present 

 is twenty-seven. The in-brethren also receive a hot 

 dinner daily, and a daily allowance of milk, bread 

 and butter, fuel and light. A dole of meal is likewise 

 distributed to twenty-six poor persons. A grant of 

 j^75 is made annually to the vicar of Greatham, and 

 under an order of the Charity Commissioners of 

 17 May 1904 a grant not to exceed j^8o a year is 

 made yearly to the Greatham Church of England 

 Schools.'''* 



A piece of land containing 3 a. I r. in Greatham 

 is vested in the master and brethren of the hospital, 

 by whom it is let on leases for certain lives in 



trust for the poor. The property known as 

 Poor Folks Cottage Field produces ^^13 a year, 

 which is applied, 5/. yearly in doles of white bread at 

 Candlemas, and the remainder in sums of 5/. to poor 

 widows at Whitsuntide and Christmas. 



In l66g Dr. Samuel Rand gave ;£loo by deed 

 for the use of the poor, which was laid out in the 

 purchase of a rent-charge of £6 issuing out of land 

 at Thornton in Yorkshire, which is applied in appren- 

 ticing boys and girls. The charge was redeemed in 

 1919 by the transfer of ^240 z\ per cent, consols 

 with the official trustees, producing £6 yearly. 



In 1762 Dormer Parkhurst, by deed, founded and 

 endowed almshouses for six almswomen or ' sisters,' 

 being widows or unmarried women of fifty years or 

 upwards. The endowments consist of the almshouse, 

 buildings, and a piece of ground in Greatham, and 

 l6a. 3 r. at Stockton-on-Tees; ;^4,853 17/. -jti. 

 consols, arising from sales of land from time to time, 

 and j^232 14J. id. India 3 per cent, stock, which are 

 held by the official trustees, producing together £\\l 

 yearly. The charity is regulated by a scheme of the 

 Charity Commissioners 6 July 1886. Each of the 

 inmates receives j{^ 1 3 16/. yearly, zs. at Easter and 

 Whitsuntide, and ^. at Christmas, with allowances 

 for coal, clothing and medical attendance. 



In 1819 Matthew Carr, by his will proved at 

 York, bequeathed ;^ioo, the interest to be distri- 

 buted among the poor at Christmas. The legacy is 

 represented by ^^104 19/. 6ii. consols, with the 

 official trustees. The annual dividends, amounting to 

 £z lis. ^d., are distributed among poor widows and 

 single women in sums varying from zs. 6d. to 5/. each. 



In 1916 Maud Appleby, by will proved 10 Feb- 

 ruary, gave j^2,ooo 6 per cent. Exchequer Bonds, 

 one half of the income therefrom to be applied to the 

 upkeep of the churchyard and cemetery and the 

 remaining half to the deserving poor. The endow- 

 ment now consists of ^^2,105 5/. 5 per cent. War 

 Stock with the official trustees, producing ^^105 ^s. zd. 

 yearly. In 1926 ^^27 3/. was distributed in money 

 grants and ^^33 8/. in relief in kind. 



GRINDON 



The parish of Grindon contained in 183 1 the 

 townships of Grindon and Whitton. Whitton has 

 now been transferred to Stillington, while the 

 township of Embleton from Sedgefield parish was 

 added to Grindon in 1908. The parish contains 

 4,275 acres; of Grindon, 1,037 acres are in 

 cultivation, 1,927 under grass, while there are 845 

 acres of woods and plantations.' The chief crops 

 raised are wheat, oats and barley. The slope of the 

 parish is from north-west to south-east. The soil is 

 mixed, on Magnesian Limestone and Keupcr Marl. 



There is not, and apparently has never been, a village 

 of Grindon. The ruins of the old church of 

 St. Thomas of Canterbury stand on a road which 

 crosses the parish from west to east and becomes a 

 path leading through Wynyard Park to the seat of 



the Marquess of Londonderry. Wynyard Park, which 

 extends over 325 acres, contains several lakes. The 

 house is a large building of two stories in the 

 classic style, with portico supported by Corinthian 

 columns. Its erection was begun in 184 1, following 

 a fire on 19 February of the same year, in which the 

 former house, which had only been begun in 1822 

 from the designs of Philip Wyatt, and was nearing 

 completion, was destroyed. Surtees, writing about 

 1823, describes the older house as 'one of the most 

 handsome and convenient mansions in the district,' 

 standing 'without much advantage of prospect.'' 

 The chapel, designed by James Brooks, was built in 

 1880 and altered and enlarged in 1903-5. The 

 sculpture gallery is 120 ft. long by 80 ft. in width. 

 On the highest ground of the park is an obelisk 



'■* y.C.H. Dur. i, 406. house, which, I think, forms the centre of ments from drainage.' ' A fine piece of 



' Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). the modern mansion.' The house is water stretches along the valley, edged with 



' Surtees, //<!/. jn./.-^nr/y.o/'Dur. iii, 78. described as surrounded by a country of wood and lawn . . . a handsome bridge 



The situation was probably preferred 'for deep clay, but the grounds were at that crosses the head of the water and forms 



the sake of preserving a portion of the old time ' receiving very substantial improve- the chief approach ' (ibid, and note). 



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