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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
Trimdon St Mary was created in 1755 from chapelry in Kelloe Ancient Parish. With the development of the colliery village of Trimdon a second church was established in 1874: | Trimdon St Mary was created in 1755 from chapelry in Kelloe Ancient Parish. With the development of the colliery village of Trimdon a second church was established in 1874: | ||
"The Church, dedicated to St. Paul, situated in Trimdon Colliery, is a plain brick structure, with stone facings, in the Early English style, consisting of nave only. It was built by subscription, at a cost of £1200, two acres of land being given by the Wilkinson family. The interior fittings are of pitch pine, and will seat 200 persons. This church was built for the ecclesiastical district of Deaf Hill cum Langdale, which was formed chiefly out of Trimdon parish." | "The Church, dedicated to St. Paul, situated in Trimdon Colliery, is a plain brick structure, with stone facings, in the Early English style, consisting of nave only. It was built by subscription, at a cost of £1200, two acres of land being given by the Wilkinson family. The interior fittings are of pitch pine, and will seat 200 persons. This church was built for the ecclesiastical district of Deaf Hill cum Langdale, which was formed chiefly out of Trimdon parish." | ||
[From History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan , London, 1894] | [From History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan , London, 1894] | ||
TRIMDON (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Sedgefield, S. division of Easington ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 9 miles (S. E.) from Durham; containing 382 inhabitants. The soil is a strong clayey loam, with a substratum of limestone. Large pieces of lead-ore have been dug up in the neighbourhood, though no mine has yet been opened; coal is raised, and shipped at Hartlepool. The village is situated on the summit of a hill, aud commands extensive and beautiful views. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £96; patron and impropriator, William Beckwith, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £175. 14.: there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 120 acres. A lectureship was endowed before 1730, with £21. 5. a year, by John Smith, Esq. A national school is endowed with £12 per annum; and an estate purchased with various bequests, and let for £32 per annum, is applied in apprenticing children and relieving poor persons. | |||
From: 'Trill - Trowse-Newton', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 392-395. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51354 Date accessed: 21 March 2011.<br> | |||
== Resources == | == Resources == | ||