This window commemorates Michael de Angelo, the City’s MP who supported abolition of the slave trade but lost his seat in 1802. There is no plaque mentioning this.

Commemorating Opposition to Rhodesia and Apartheid in South Africa

The Cathedral had a Dean and the other clergy, including Canons and Prebendaries made up the Chapter. One of the Dean’s had a daughter whose son Sheffield Neave (1799 - 1868) became a West Indian m...

Several clergy men received compensation in exchange of compensation package. Bishop Thomas Thurlow was directly associated with the slave trade and as such was one of the Bishops who sat on the So...

Charles William Vane Stewart exploited coal miners and his Irish tenants. His statue is in the marketplace in Durham city.

Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752) gave a sermon to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in February 1738-9 (earlier SPG, it was a high church missionary organisation of the...

The Durham Light Infantry has its origins in the 68th Foot formed in 1758, which became the Durham Regiment in 1782.

Moses taking leave of the court of Pharoah.

Discovery of an image of an unknown enslaved boy and Dutch style church interior.

The Haswell banner of about 1890 used both sides to show seven of the pioneers of the Durham Miners’ Association: William Crawford, Tommy Ramsey, Alexander Macdonald, William Patterson, John Forman...

Bishop Barrington was known as a supporter of abolition. At the same time, his Chaplain Rev. Henry Phillpotts (1778-1869) who became a Cathedral Canon (from 1831 to 1869) was compensated with th...

The memorial to miners of County Durham was installed in 1947.