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Greatham in Durham County England History and GeographyGREATHAM, a parish in the north-eastern division of STOCKTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, comprising the townships of Claxton and Greatham, and containing 484 inhabitants, of which number, 446 are in the township of Greatham, 7 miles (N.E. by N.) from Stockton upon Tees. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £7. 1. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Governors of Greatham Hospital. The church occupies the site of a more ancient structure, which was pulled down in 1792, excepting some pillars and arches on each side of the nave. The 'Hospital of God in Greatham' was founded and endowed with the manor of Greatham, by Robert de Stichell, Bishop of Durham, in 1272, for a master, five priests, two clerks; and forty poor brethren, selected from the episcopal manors: Bishop Anthony Bek increased the original endowment, and added one chaplain and one clerk to the establishment: Edward IV. granted a license to the master to hold a weekly market, and fairs twice a year. By the charter of James, in 1610, the number was reduced to a master and thirteen brethren, who were constituted a body corporate, with a common seal, and privilege to purchase lands: at present there are a master, a chaplain, six brethren, maintained wholly in the hospital, six out-pensioners and a bailiff, upon the foundation, of which the Bishop of Durham is patron, with power to repeal ancient statutes and to make new ones. There are but slight traces of the old building remaining, the whole having been rebuilt in 1804, by the benevolent exertions of the Earl of Bridgewater, who in 1785, before succeeding to the earldom, was collated to the mastership, which he continued to hold in order to appropriate its revenne to this purpose: it has four fronts, that towards the south having an arcade of three arches in the centre, surmounted by a tower and a dome, and the apartments for the brethren fill the square: the master's house is a handsome edifice, in the garden attached to which is the chapel, rebuilt in 1788. Parkhurst's hospital was founded in 1761, and endowed by Dormer Parkhurst, Esq., then master of God's hospital, for six poor women, who have each a separate dwelling-house and garden. The revenue, arising from certain lands in the township of Stockton, is about £100 per annum, and the master of the preceding institution is the patron. On the marshes near the mouth of the Tees were formerly considerable salt works, traces of which are still to be seen. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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