A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



sold it before 1823 to the Rev. W. Fountaine Addison, 

 rector of the parish.'* The trustees of the Rev. W. F. 

 Addison, who died in 1893, are still landowners. 



The holding of the Cambes passed into the pos- 

 session of the younger line of Killinghall, and in 

 1595 Henry Killinghall and William his son and 

 heir conveyed their ' manor ' and land there to 

 Edward Blakiston," who in 1607 granted the 

 same amount of land and what was said to be a 

 fourth part of the manor to Margaret Pinkney.'* 

 Christopher Hall of West Hartburn, having been 

 adjudged a delinquent, asked leave to compound in 

 1650, but it is not clear what l.ind he had in this 

 township. He died in August 1650 without issue, 

 and his executors were his brother Thomas Hall 

 and Margery Pinkney ; she died in 1651, and one 

 Lawrence Pinkney seems to have claimed. It was 

 alleged that Margery's name was being used to pro- 

 tect Hall's estate." 



GOOSEPOOL, or the part of Hartburn within 

 Long Newton, seems to have been acquired by the 

 Balliols, for in 1306 it was recorded that the service 

 of the twelfth part of a knight's fee was due from 

 Hartburn, formerly John de Balliol's land." About 

 1 348-60 John de Meynill obtained licence to 

 acquire a fourth part of the manor of Goosepool 

 (Gespoll) from Hugh Galon.'* Thus it is probable 

 that the estate was broken up into small parcels. 

 Thomas Ashby of Sadberge was in 1 42 1 found to 

 have held lands in Hartburn of Sir Robert Conyers 

 on the east side of the brook, and of John Killinghall 

 on the west side ; part of it had been purchased 

 from Robert Fulthorp. John, the son and heir 

 of Thomas, being dead, the Hartburn lands were to 

 descend to Thomas Garmondway, aged forty, as son 

 of Joan sister of Thomas Coke, father of Alice, mother 

 of John Ashby.'* Though from this Conyers appears 

 to have been lord of the Goosepool part of Hart- 

 burn, it is not named in the inquisitions of the family. 



Ralph Paul died seised of land here held of the 

 manor of DinsJale in 1568.^" His son William 2' 

 settled it on himself and his issue, with remainder to 

 Robert, Richard, Christopher and Henry Paul. 

 William died without issue, and the manor passed 

 from Robert to his son Francis, who died without 

 issue in 161 5 seised of a capital messuage called 

 P^UL HARTBURN (Pawle Hartburne, xvi cent.), 

 and was followed by Henry son of Christopher,-'^ 

 who granted the estate in 1621 to Robert Ellis, 

 the transfer being completed in 1630.^* Robert Ellis 

 died in possession in 1622, leaving a son and heir 

 also called Robert,^* who as Captain Robert Ellis 

 incurred sequestration of his lands in West Hartburn 

 and elsewhere.-^ This estate had descended to three 

 co-heirs by 1729 ; they sold to Elizabeth Hall, who 

 in 1733 devised it to her son William Sleigh, and 

 his trustees in 1778 sold to trustees under the will 

 of Ralph Carr.2« 



The freeholders in the parish 



^^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 2 (i) ; cl. 3, 

 R. 92, m. 3. 



'5 Ibid. R. 94, m. 3 ; cl. 12, no. 2 (2). 



16 The fi^,f. of MMleion St. Giorgc 

 (Dur. and North. Par. Reg. Soc), 47 ; 

 Rrc. Com. for Comf. (Surt. Soc), 224-9 i 

 Foster, op. cit. 149. 



" Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii 

 801 ; iii, 32. 



" Ibid. no. 2, fol. 207 d. 



'" Ibid, file 191, no. 49. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid, file 189, no. 58 ; R 

 cf. Surtees, op. cit. iii, 220. 



-■' Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 3 (2), 4 (2) ; 

 Dip. Keeper's Rep. xliv, 486, 



-' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 189, no. 86. 



Francis Ayscough, — Bearman, Thomas Cunning- 

 ham, Cuthbert Garth, William Killinghall, Thomas 

 Thoroton, Christopher Ward, Jane Wilson, and the 

 heirs of Robert Yong. 



The church of ST. GEORGE " 

 CHURCHES consists of a chancel with north 

 vestry, nave, south porch, and small 

 west tower. Divine service is now held only in the 

 church in the afternoons of the third Sunday in each 

 month. 



The site is an ancient one, but no portion of the 

 existing structure is older than the latter half of the 

 13th century. The only parts of this date now 

 standing are the chancel arch and the south and west 

 walls of the nave. Towards the end of the 1 8th 

 century, when the spa was established, the nave was 

 widened by pushing out the north wall, the chancel 

 was rebuilt, and nearly all the original architectural 

 features of the building destroyed. New roofs were 

 erected covered with blue slates and with flat plaster 

 ceilings inside, the old muUioned windows were 

 destroyed, the tops of the openings renewed in brick, 

 and wooden frames inserted. The vestry was built 

 at the same time. In 1888 the tower was added by 

 Henry A. W. Cocks, patron and lord of the manor, 

 in place of a former west bellcote, and in the same year 

 the building was repointed, the flat ceilings removed, 

 open benches inserted in place of the old pews, new 

 wooden windows put in and a general restoration 

 effected.^* 



The chancel has a window of three lights at the 

 east end and one on the south side. There is also a 

 priest's doorway, the square head of which is old, 

 probably belonging to a former and narrower door- 

 way in the same position. The chancel arch is of two 

 orders, the outer plastered and of square section and 

 the inner one chamfered, springing on either side 

 from semi-octagonal corbels supported by human 

 heads, a man's on the north side, and a woman's 

 with protruding tongue on the south. 



The nave is lighted by two windows on the north 

 and one on the south side. The latter has an 

 original square head, but the opening is filled with a 

 modern wooden frame. All the other windows in 

 the building have pointed brick heads and wooden 

 frames of three pointed lights. The porch has a 

 plain coped gable and semicircular brick arch, but 

 the original jamb stones remain below the springing. 

 The inner doorway has a square head and there is a 

 scat on either side. 



The tower, of a nondescript Gothic character, 

 detracts in no small measure from the appearance of 

 the building. It was built up against the west gable, 

 but is now leaving the building and leaning westward. 

 It contains an old bell without inscription. 



The font is ancient and consists of a circular tub- 

 like sandstone bowl on a stepped base and high 

 octagonal plinth. The bowl may be of late 1 2th- 

 The pulpit is modern. 



^^ Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 



-** Surtees, op. cit. iii, 220. 



^' By a not uncommon variation it is 

 called St. Gregory's in Reg. Palat. Dunelm, 

 (Rolls Ser.), i, 125. 



^^ Proc. Soc. Antiq. Neivcaitlty ix, 6^. 



2*^ The font is figured and described in 

 Trans. Dur. Arch. Soc. vi, 241. For plate 

 see Proc, Soc, Ant'tq. Newcastle^ iv, 131. 



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