St Nicholas Church, Durham

Who we are

• What we believe
• Mission statement
• History
• Incumbents
• Church guide
  • First impressions
  • The rebuilding of 1858
  • The Fish window
  • The Holy Table
  • The lectern
  • The Cross
  • Rumours of life
  • The church registers
  • The fonts
  • The pillars
  • The stained glass windows
  • The quiet chapel
  • The screens
  • The Holy Table in the chapel
  • The chapel organ
  • The Gateway World Shop
  • The statue of St Nicholas
  • What is a Church?
• Staff team
• PCC
• Interns

The Church Registers

These are now kept in the archives at County Hall and are no longer available in the church. For those who collect oddities, however, a baptismal entry for 1569 may be of interest:

Mem. That a certain Italian brought into the Cittie of Durham the 11th day of June in the yeare aforesaid A very greate strange and monstrous serpent in length sixteene feete, in quantitie and dimension greater than a horse. Which was taken and killed by speciall pollicie in Aethiopia within the Turke's dominions. But before it was killed it had devoured (as it is credibly thought) more than 1000 persons and also destroyed a whole countrey.