St Peter's Church Wedding Photography - Stockton - North East

St Peter’s Church on Yarm Rd Stockton is an excellent place for a wedding ceremony.

The Parish of St. Peter’s was formed in 1875 out of Holy Trinity Parish, which itself had been carved out of Stockton parish in 1837.  The original church was built of wood and stood on the corner of Cranbourne terrace and Walter Street. The first incumbent, Rev. Henry Woodman (1875-1905), oversaw the building of the existing brick building which was dedicated on 13 October, 1881, at a cost of almost £6,000.

Within 3 years, an organ had been installed, but this was replaced by the present Abbot and Smith instrument in 1890. In 1886, the vicarage was completed, and the bell was given by Joseph Cradock, in thanks for recovery from illness. The Parish Hall behind the church was built in 1893, and updated in 1933. It was used for the Sunday School until the new Parish Room was created in the church building following restoration after the1995 fire.

The boundaries of the parish were altered in 1928, part of the parish going into the altered St. Paul’s parish, and again in the 1960s, when the area of Fairfield was formed into the parish of St. Mark’s church.
The township of Hartburn had been included in St. Peter’s parish since 1875, although not absorbed into the Borough of

Stockton in 1913, and the schoolroom there was used as a mission hall on Sundays. The school moved to new premises in 1911, and All Saints’ Church was dedicated on 25 June 1913. The summer fetes were held at Hartburn, in the grounds of Elmwood House and Parkwood House from the 1930s until 1979, when it moved into the precincts of  St.Peter’s.

This is a small sample of photographs taken by Diamond Photography at St Peter's Church Stockton.