West Herrington chapel

HER Number:
248

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
West Herrington chapel

Place:
West Herrington

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Chantry chapel

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1273 Sir Thomas de Herrington granted his manor of Houghall to the Church of St. Cuthbert; and in return for the donation, Richard Hoton, Prior of Durham, and his Convent, agreed, by their charter dated ...Feb. 1291, to institute two perpetual chantries in the Church of Durham... one in the Chapel of Herverton, the other in the Chapel of West Herrington...". In 1414, after a dispute, the Rector of Houghton agreed to provide a second chaplain in the parish to celebrate Mass 2 or 3 times a week in the said chapel of West Herrington. The Chapel probably did not survive the dissolution of the Chantries... A church (with cemetery) built at West Herrington in 1840 and demolished in 1975 was said to have been built on the site of chantry chapel but this could not be proved.

Easting:
345

Northing:
530

Grid Reference:
NZ345530

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 248 >> R. Surtees, 1816, History of...Durham, Vol. I, p. 185 J.C. Hodgson, Bequest W. Hutchinson, 1787, History of...Durham II, MS note by ? Hodgson between pp. 568-9 -Newcastle Library Local Studies Surtees Society, Royal Commission for the survey of Chantries in the Bishopric, 22, p. lxxi