STOCKTON WARD 



GRINDON 



Alexander Wynyard is said to have passed. '^-^ In 

 1723 it was conveyed by Alexander Davison, son, 

 according to Surtecs,*'"' of the last-named Alexander, 

 to George Vane and John Morland.*'* This con- 

 veyance was perh.ips in trust for a sale to Thomas 

 Rudd, who is said to have purchased the manor from 

 Alexander. *■•* Land in the manor was conveyed by 

 Thomas Davison of Norton to Thomas Rudd in 

 1737.^' Thomas Rudd sold his estate to John 

 Tempest •'" of Painshaw (q.v.), and it has passed with 

 that property to the Marquess of Londonderry. 



A mill at Wynyard is mentioned in i 549.'''' 



The church of ST. THOMJS OF 

 CHURCHES CJNTERBURr is now in ruins. 

 With the e.xception of the east end 

 the walls stand their full height, but the roofs have 

 entirely disappeared, and since the erection of the new 

 church in the village in 1848 the building has been 

 neglected and exposed to the weather. 

 It consists of a chancel 23 ft. 6 in. by 

 16 ft. 6 in., with chapel on the south side 

 10 ft. 10 in. by II ft., nave 50 ft. 4 in. 

 by 2 I ft. 6 in., and south porch 9 ft. by 

 7 ft., these measurements being internal. 

 There was also a bell-turret, containing 

 two bells, over the west gable. 



The oldest part of the structure is the 

 chancel arch and part of the walls of the 

 chancel, which are of 1 2th-century date, 

 but the church was rebuilt, apparently 

 on the old plan, by Bishop Pudsey at the 

 end of the same century, and the whole i q 5 q 



of the nave is of this date, its style being "^ 



distinctly Transitional. The chapel on the 

 south side of the chancel was added in the 

 14th century probably for a chantry, but 

 was known Luer as the Fulthorpe porch. In 1788 the 

 church was 'nearly rebuilt' and the lead of the roof 

 replaced by slate. ^ The porch appears to be an 

 addition or rebuilding of this time, when new windows 

 were inserted at the east end of the nave walls and 

 the chancel largely reconstructed. 



The chancel arch still stands and is semicircular in 

 form, of a single square order without hood mould, 

 springing from chamfered imposts which run back some 

 distance along the wall at each side. The north 

 wall of the chancel is refaced with 2-in. brick on the 

 outside, or may have been rebuilt in 1788, the old 

 stone being re-used on the inside. The jambs of 

 the north window, however, appear to be old. The 

 greater part of the east wall has been destroyed, but 

 the south-east corner remains and shows the same 

 brick facing. There have been two steps up to the 

 altar pace, but no ancient ritual arrangements remain. 

 The old altar slab of Tecs marble is now in the church 

 at Thorpe Thewles. On the south side, now opening 

 into the chapel, is an original small round-headed 

 window with wide internal splay, to the east of which 

 is a two-light square-headed opening inserted when 

 the chapel was erected, or shortly afterwards. The 

 chapel is separated from the chancel by a pointed 

 arch of two chamfered orders dying into the wall at 

 the springing, and is built of rubble masonry, the 



walls being about 8 ft. 6 in. high. The piscina 

 remains in the usual position in the south wall, and 

 the east window is of three trefoiled lights. On the 

 south side is a two-light window the head and mullion 

 of which are gone, and on the west a single-light 

 opening with ogee head in one stone. 



The nave is built of large squared stones in courses 

 and has two original lancet windows on the south 

 side, one on the north, and another at the west end. 

 The heads are all in two stones and without hood 

 moulds, and the openings are 1 4 in. wide. The two 

 later windows at the east end of the north and south 

 walls probably take the place of former lancets, and 

 in the south-east angle is an arched brick recess which 

 formed the fireplaceof the 1 8th-century Wynyard pew. 

 The south doorway has a pointed arch of two 

 moulded orders and hood mould, the outer order 

 springing from angle shafts with carved capitals and 



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Scale of Feet 



Plan of Grindon Church 



bases, and the inner continued to the ground. One 

 of the shafts is gone, but the doorway, the detail of 

 which is very good, is in a fair state of preservation. 

 The square-headed north doorway is now built 

 up. The porch, like the rest of the building, is 

 roofless, and the lower part of the bell-turret alone 

 remains. 



In the churchyard, to the south-east of the building, 

 is a stone coffin and a mediaeval grave slab, on which 

 the name ' Roger de Fulthorp ' is visible. It probably 

 was originally in the Fulthorpe porch. 



The new church of the HOW TRIKITY, erected 

 at Thorpe Thewles in 1 848, was subsequently taken 

 down and replaced by the present building, dedicated 

 to the honour of ST. JAMES, in 1 886-7.«» It is of 

 stone, in the style of the 13th century, and consists 

 of chancel, nave, south porch, and west tower and 

 spire. The tower contains one bell, cast by Taylor 

 of Loughborough, in 1887.™ 



The plate consists of a chalice and paten of 1886, 

 given in the following year by Miss Parkin ; two 

 pewter plates, one inscribed ' Bought for y' use of 

 Grindon Church 1724. R. C. and J. R. Chu" W.' ; 

 and a pewter flagon with the mark of Edmund Harvey 

 of London.''^ 



The registers begin in 1655. 



A new church school was built in 1 899. 



•'» SurtcM, op. cit. iii, 1 66. «"> Ibid. 

 «* Feet of F. Diir. East. 9 Geo. I. 

 "» Surtccs, loc. cit. 

 " Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 121, m. 11. 



^ Surtccs, op. cit. iii, 78. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 178, no. 30. 



^* Surtccs, op. cit. iii, 75. 



^* It was designed by Mr. R. J. Johnson. 



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^*^ One of the bclU of the old church 

 was sent to Loughborough to be uicd in 

 the casting of the new bell. 



'^ Proc, Soc, Antiq. Newcastlcf iv, 20. 



