STOCKTON WARD 



STOCKTON ON TEES 



nave with aisles, north and south transepts, organ 

 chamber, south porch, and west tower with spire. The 

 parish was formed in 1864*° from that of St. Thomas. 

 The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Crown and 

 the Bishop of Durham alternately. 



The church of 67'. JOHN BAPTIST, in Alma 

 Street, was completed in 1874. It is a brick building 

 in the Basilican style, and consists of an apsidal chan- 

 cel, nave with north and south aisles, and south porch. 

 The parish was formed from that of St. Thomas in 

 1 87 1." The living is a vicarage in the gift of the 

 Bishop of Durham. 



The church of ST. PETER, in Yarm Road, was 

 completed in 1881. It is a brick building with stone 

 dressings, in the Gothic style, and consists of a chancel, 

 nave with north and south aisles, south porch and west 

 tower. The parish was formed from the parishes of 

 St. Thomas and Holy Trinity in 1875."* The living 

 is a vic.ir.ige in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop 

 of Durham alternately. 



The church of ST. PJUL, in Wellington Street, 

 was built in 1885. It is a brick building with stone 

 facings in the 13th-century style, and consists of a 

 chancel, nave, vestry, organ chamber, south-west porch 

 and bell gable. The parish was formed in 1875 out 

 of St. Thomas and Holy Trinity parishes.^' The 

 living is a vicarage in the same gift. 



The church oC JLL SAINTS, Preston upon Tees, 

 is a small building attached as a mission church to 

 Holy Trinity. Other mission churches in the parish 

 are that in Bowesfield Lane and another at Fairfield 

 served by the clergy of St. Paul's. St. James' Hall in 

 Tilery is licensed for public worship and served by 

 St. James*. 



In the ordination of the chapel of 

 ADyOlfSON Stockton m.ide before 1237 it was 

 agreed that the vicar of Norton should 

 find the chaplain and th.U his parishioners in Stockton, 

 Preston and Hartburn should have right of baptism 

 and burial at Stockton, visiting the mother church 

 and making their offerings there on the feast of the 

 Assumption (15 August). They were to p.iy the 

 vicar of Norton 50/. a year and to offer \d. with the 

 blessed bread every Sunday at Stockton except on 

 the days when they gave blessed bre.id to Norton.'''' 

 Stockton chapel, which may have been of much earlier 

 origin, thus became a parochial chapelry practically 

 independent of the parish church. Later it was 

 described as the free chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr. 

 The payment of 50/. appe.irs to have been augmented 

 afterwards, for in an account made about 1705 it was 

 recorded that the inhabitants of the chapelry paid £-^ 

 a year to the vicar of Norton towards a curate to be 

 maintained at Stockton. This payment was called 

 the ' Priest's own,' and was collected at the rate of 

 lid. from each 2 oxgangs of land, widows paying %r/. 

 and others who had no land 61/. For tithes of fish 



each cobble paid 4/. and gave a salmon cock or scurf 

 worth 6</'.''' 



The parochial chapel obtained an endowment of 

 land by gift from Bishop Nicholas de Farnham 

 (1241-9). This was described as 4 oxgangs late of 

 Maud de Combe, and was evidently the land held 

 about I 184 by Robert de Cambois (Combe).''- On 

 the confiscation of such chapels by Henry VIII and 

 Edward VI it was returned that the chaplain's house 

 was worth 6/. 8(/. a year ; four burgages, with barn 

 and 4 oxgangs of land, paid j^4 14/. lod. ; another 

 piece of land, the third part of an oxgang, for the 

 maintenance of two candles burning before the Blessed 

 Sacrament, paid 5;. ; rents of m. dd. and itd. were 

 due to the bishop for the lands ; and the net income 

 was £1 3/.'^^ The lead and bells of the chapel were 

 also noticed,"' but the fabric was spared on the ground 

 that it stood a mile from the parish church and was 

 used by the people of various parishes ' in the winter 

 time, when for rainy floods they could come none 

 whither else to hear divine service.' ''* During the 

 Northern rising of 1 569 the altar was rebuilt in 

 Stockton Church,*^* and probably mass was said there, 

 but nothing more is stated. About ten years later the 

 curate was unlicensed ''' and the roof of the chapel 

 was in decay. ''' 



The old endowment w.is sold by the Crown in 

 161 3 to Francis Morrice and Francis Philipps with 

 many other like parcels, being described as the mansion- 

 house of the chaplain and 4.^ oxgangs of land belong- 

 ing to the chapel.'''^ In 16 1 8 the grantees sold it to 

 Richard Grubham,'" and it was in 1644 sequestered 

 by the Parliament for his adherence to the king's 

 party,"' but about 1648 it was acquired by John 

 Jenkins, a Welshman and a major in Cromwell's army, 

 who lived in Stockton at the corner of Bishopton 

 Lane.'- The estate was known as the ' queen's land,' 

 and a moiety was in 1653 claimed by Rowland Bur- 

 don, whose sister had married Jenkins,"' but their 

 claim seems to have failed. Jenkins died in 1 661, 

 having made a gift to the poor of the place, and in 

 his will mentions his burgages and 4^ oxgangs of land, 

 obviously the chapel endowment ; the Grange field 

 and Miln eye were perhaps portions of it.'* The 

 land was probably that marked ' freehold ' on the plan 

 of 1724, just north of the old borough boundary.'^ 



It is not clear how the curate or chaplain was 

 maintained after the Reformation. In the Suri'ey of 

 1647 the benefice is called ' a poor pension, not worth 

 above ^^30 or ^^35.'"'^ A note by Thomas Rudd 

 states that ' Rowland Salkeld was left curate at Stock- 

 ton by Mr. Mallory (vicar of Norton), who was forced 

 from his vicarage and went to the West Indies, and 

 should have a fifth of the vicarage. But Mr. Salkeld 

 got the chapel turned into a vicarage, which he 

 secured to himself "" 



Thomas Rudd became curate of Stockton in 1663, 



30 Aug. 1S64, p. 



*^ London Ga-z 

 4206. 



'" Ibid. 28 Mar. 18-1, p. 1621. 



'' Ibid. 29 Oct. 1875, p. 5092. 



" Ibid. 



*" Brewster, op. cit. 166 ; Surtees, op. 

 cit. iii, 392. 



" Brewster, op. cit. 116. 



«» Cf. r.C.H. Dur. i, 3 37, and Hai- 

 Jield^i Suri'. (Surt. Soc), 169. 



^ Brewster, op. cit. 113, 17+-5 ; Harl. 



R. D 36 (B.M.), m. 23 ; Bp. Bamn' 

 Injunc. (Surt. Soc), p. Ixix. 



•'' Invtni. C/i. Goj./i (Surt. Soc), 146, 

 150. "^ Brewster, op. cit. 114. 



'■^ Dur. Dtp. and Ecd. Proc. (Surt. Soc), 

 199. 



" Bf>. Barnci' Injunc. (Surt. Soc), 55. 



•* Ibid. I 30. 



" Pat.ioJas.I,pt.riii(3Feb.). There 

 was an earlier grant (Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. x). 



'" Brewster, op. cit. (2nd ed.), 289. 



"' Rtc. Com. for Comf. (Surt. Soc), 35 



*- There is a view of the house io 

 Brewster's 2nd edition, p. 232. It was 

 afterwards owned by the Raisbacks and 

 then the Allisons. 



"Chan. Proc (Ser. 2), bdle. 433, 

 no. 55. 



'* Brewster, op. cit. (1st cd.), 134. 



^^ In Richmond's Loc. Records. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 172. 



'' Brewster, op, cit. 1 15. 



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