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Dinnington St Matthew

[Population 1911: 2,991]

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Church

Captain Henry Bell, of Woolsington had the church built at a cost of £3000. It is built of stone and is in the transition period between Early English and decorated styles. It consists of a chancel, nave, south porch and western turret containing one bell. The reredos was given to the church in 1959. It was originally given to the first Bishop of Newcastle in 1882 by the women of the diocese, for the Bishop's Chapel at Benwell Towers. Seating capacity 200. Tablets on the walls are memorials to the family of Henry Bell and the 'Village dead' of two World Wars. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 55.]

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History

NRO EP 84/1 Baptism Register 1835-1877. Mss. notes on boards and fly-leaf:

The Foundation Stones for the building of Dinnington Church were led by Mr. Richard Nicholson's Carts of Horton-Grange-Low-House, March 25th 1834.

The Foundation Stones for the building of Dinnington Vicarage were led by Mr. Richard Nicholson's Carts, of Horton-Grange-Low-House, March 26th 1838.

Printed note pasted below this SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED TOWARDS BUILDING A CHANCEL TO DINNINGTON CHURCH, n.d.

On Friday the twenty third Day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty five; the Parish Church of Dinnington, in the County of Northumberland, and Diocese of Durham, was consecrated to the Service of Almighty God (by the Honorable & Rt Reverend Hugh Percy, Lord Bishop of Carlisle acting on behalf of the Rt Reverend William Van Mildert, Lord Bishop of Durham) by the name of the Vicarage of St. Matthews Dinnington. At the same time the churchyard was consecrated and a Parish was also attached to the said Church of Dinnington, by a local Petition and Document. The said Petition & Document, are deposited in the Register Office at Durham. The Parish of Dinnington consists of the following Townships and Places. Eastern Moiety of the Township of Prestwick, viz: Prestwick Whin, Prestwick, a Farm in the Occupation of Nicholas Bell & a Farm in the Occupation of Mary Bell, & Woolsington High House.

The Warden & Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, & the Revd John Lightfoot B.D. Vicar of Ponteland, & late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, as Patrons of the Living, appointed the Revd J.R. Furness M.A. late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, to the said Living of Dinnington A.D. 1835. The said Revd J.R. Furness was inducted to Dinnington, by a Little Mandatory, from the Lord Bishop of Durham, by the Rev. Robert Green M.A. Incumbent of All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne. The Warden, and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, the Revd J. Lightfoot B.D., Vicar of Ponteland, & Matthw Bell Esqr M.P. were the three munificent endowers of Dinnington: the latter Gentleman gave the Ground in which the Church stands, & also the Church Yard.

Building Committee Wm Robson Esq.
Rev. J.R. Furness
Edw. Lawson
Wm Rutherford
Wm Sheriton
Scrivener

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