STOCKTON WARD 



LONG NEWTON 



consisted of a chancel and nave with bell-turret and 

 entrance at the west end. The original semicircular 

 chancel arch was replaced by ' three narrow pointed 

 arches supported by plain square pillars,'''' and the 

 nave had two 'modern lights on each side under 

 pointed arches, and the chancel one light on each 

 side of the same form, but divided by stone mullions.' 

 The east window was a pointed one of three lights.*^ 



The south aisle of the new building is open to the 

 nave by an arcade of three pointed arches, the porch, 

 which is intended to form the base of a tower, stand- 

 ing at its west end with entrance direct to the nave. 

 A handsome carved oak chancel screen was erected in 

 1904 by the Marquess of Londonderry, and the pulpit 

 is also of carved oaic in a similar style and design. 

 The reredos dates from 1887, and is a memorial to 

 the Rev. John Wilson, rector 1869-85. 



The mausoleum contains an elaborate monument 

 to the third Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854), 

 who is interred in the vault below,*' and mural monu- 

 ments to George Vane of Long Newton (d. 1750), 

 Sir Henry Vane Tempest, bart. (d. 181 3), Adolphus 

 Frederick Charles William Stewart \'ane Tempest 

 (d. 1864), and Frances Ann Vane, Marchioness of 

 Londonderry (d. 1865). There are also four smaller 

 tablets to daughters of the house of Vane, and in the 

 floor is a brass plate to Sir George Vane, who died 

 in 1679. It bears the following inscription : 'Here 

 lieth the body of S'' George Vane interred | May the 

 first 1679 second son of S"^ Henry | Vane sometime 

 principall Secretary of State | to King Charles the 

 First he married Elizabeth | the heiress of S'' Lyonell 

 Maddison of New | castle vpon Tyne, by whom he 

 had thirteene | hopefvl children, viz. fovre sons and 

 nine daughters | His honour wonne ith fcild lies here 

 ith dvst I His honour got by grace shall never rust | 

 The former fades the latter shall fade never | For 

 why, he was S"' George once but S' George ever.' 



The plate consists of a cup of i 571, with a band 

 of leaf ornament round the bowl, a cup of 1833, 

 and a paten of 1843, all of London make and without 

 inscriptions.** 



The registers begin in 1564. 



The advowson of Long Newton 

 ADVOIVSON Church appears to have been held by 

 the Bishops of Durham. In 1 3 18 one 

 Manser Marmion was presented by the king on the 

 ground that the see of Durham was vacant *^ ; about 

 the same time, at the king's request, the pope pro- 

 vided to it Simon de Lausellis,'" but shortly afterwards 

 the provision failed, because the lay patron had vindi- 

 cated his right in the king's court. '^ This seems to 



refer to a claim by the king in right of the vacant 

 bishopric."- Notwithstanding this the advowson of 

 Long Newton as well as the vill was recorded among 

 the Earl of Warwick's possessions in 1397-8.'^ It 

 was vested in the Bishop of Durham in 1577-87," 

 and so continued until 1859,*' when it was trans- 

 ferred to the Bishop of Chester, who retains it. 



The value of the benefice was estimated at £to a 

 year in 1291,^'"' but in 1318, after the devastations 

 by the Scots, at ^^14 only.'' By 1535 it had again 

 risen to £20.'^^ In 1501 the rector, parish chaplain 

 and chaplain of the gild appeared at the visitation." 

 During the rising of 1569 a former rector of Long 

 Newton, Richard Hartburn, who had perhaps been 

 deprived in 1562,"" showed himself most zealous in 

 the restoration of the ancient rites. He caused the 

 altar to be set up once more in the church and him- 

 self said mass there ; in his sermon, according to one 

 witness, he denounced the people as ' Lowters,' who 

 had been ' damned these eleven years.' ^ A few 

 weeks afterwards, when the insurrection had failed, 

 the altar stone was taken away again and thrown 

 into a pit and the holy water vat was broken.' The 

 rector and curate appeared at a visitation in I 578.' 

 The Commonwealth incumbent, John Oliver, con- 

 formed in 1662 and retained his benefice till his 

 death in 1687.'' His successor, Thomas Baker, the 

 Cambridge antiquary and historian, was less com- 

 pliant. He was deprived in 1690 as a nonjuror.' 



Surtees prints a terrier of i 806. It is noteworthy 

 that the rector had 7/. a year from 7 oxgangs of 

 land in Sadberge and 8/. from the rector of 

 H.iughton le Skerne,* possibly in settlement of some 

 ancient boundary dispute. Part of West Hartburn 

 paid a tithe composition to Long Newton. 



The chantry or gild of St. Mary has been men- 

 tioned above. Nothing seems known of its history.' 

 It has been supposed that there was also a chapel at 

 Coatham Stob.* 



In 1686 Thomas Barker by his 

 CHARITIES will devised 20/. yearly to the poor, 

 issuing out of land at East New- 

 biggin belonging to the Marquess of Londonderry. 

 The annuity is distributed amongst the poor, widows 

 being preferred. 



The Rev. Jonathan Wilson by his will, proved at 

 Durham in 1885, directed his residuary estate to be 

 applied for the promotion of religious education in 

 connexion with the Church of England, or partly in 

 payment of the salary of an organist. A portion of 

 the trust fund derived under the will was applied 

 towards building a Church Institute, on a site given 



diocese. His work at Auckland Castle 

 wag Wyatt's Gothic. The dimensions 

 are given as : chancel 33 ft. 4^ in. by 

 17 ft. 9 in., nave 55 ft. 4J in. by loft. gin. 

 The new church was therefore apparently 

 built on the old foundations, a south aisle, 

 porch and organ chamber being added. 



■''^ Fordyce, op. cit. ii, 217. 



^* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 216. 



''^ The marble figure of the third mar- 

 quess has been removed in recent years 

 to Wynyard. 



" Proc. Soc. Antij. Ntivcaule (New 

 Ser.), iii, 288. The Elizabethan chalice 

 it figured on p. 289. 



"" C<i/. Pdt. 1317-21, pp. 216, 217. 

 John de Jargeaux or Chargeux, chaplain of 

 Queen Isabella, was the previous rector. 



5° Cal. Pa^d Letters, ii, 177. 



" Ibid. 200. 



92 Abbret: Ptac. (Rec. Cora.), 355. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, no. 137, 

 m. 9. 



"' Bp. Barnes' Injunc. (Surt. Soc), 4. 



^'^ Lond. Gax. 5 Aug. 1859, p. 

 2998. 



"« Pofe Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 



''• Ibid. 330. 



™ Fahr Eecl. (Rec. Com.), v, 330. 



^ Bp. Barnes' Injunc. (Surt. Soc), 



p. XXX. 



'™ Surtees gives Richard Hartburn as 

 rector in 1^58 and Edward Banks in 

 1562 (op. cit. iii, 217). 



' Sharp, Mem. oj Rebellion of 1569, 



pp. 2;S-6o. In the list of indictments 

 the name is given as Robert Hartburn 

 (ibid. 229). 



' Def>, and Eccl. Proc. (Surt. Soc), 

 194—7. John Tunstall of Long Newton 

 in 1583 desired to be buried 'where the 

 altar stood ' {Dur. fVills and Inx'ent. 

 [Surt. Soc], ii, 79). 



* Bf>. Barnes' Injunc. (Surt. Soc), 

 56. 



* Surtees, loc. cit. 



* Diet. Nat, Biog. He was a natiTC of 

 Lanchestcr (q.v.). 



** Surtees, op. cit. iii, 218. 



' Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 168, referring 

 to a copyhold book of 12 Bishop Robert 

 (Neville). 



^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



