MEDOMSLEY, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of LANCHESTER which is in the western division
of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 13
miles (N.W.) from Durham, containing 461 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Durham, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Mar.y Magdalene, is
in the early style of English architecture, with lancet
windows. Christopher Hunter, M.D., physician and
antiquary, was born here in 1675, and interred in Shotley
church, in July 1757.