St Mary and St Romuald is a

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Yarm Yarm, also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees, is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It was previously a port town before the industry moved down the River Tees to more accessible settlements ne ...

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. Administratively, it is part of the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

History

The Church of St. Mary and St. Romuald is located on land that was at one time attached to the Black Friars monastery, which was founded at Yarm in 1260. The parish originated as a domestic chaplaincy to the Meynell family. In 1860, the parish received its own free-standing church, a gift from Thomas Meynell to his wife. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of York, Mother of Mercy, and St.

Romuald Romuald ( la, Romualdus; 951 – traditionally 19 June, c. 1025/27 AD) was the founder of the Camaldolese order and a major figure in the eleventh-century "Renaissance of eremitical asceticism".John Howe, "The Awesome Hermit: The Symbolic ...

, abbot and monastic founder. St. Romuald was born in

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, a favourite resort of the Meynells. The current parish priest is the Very Rev. Canon Alan Sheridan.

Architecture

The church was designed by Hadfield & Goldie of Sheffield. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof, and is "a well-detailed example of the use of structural polychromatic brickwork, popular in the 1860s". The East window was designed by John Hardman Powell of Hardman & Co. The church is a Grade II listed building, as it "represents a relatively early and little altered church" by the Catholic architect George Goldie.Minting, Stuart. "Historic local churches get extra protection - but that might have a downside...", ''The Press'', 7 March 2016
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References

External links

Diocese website

Parish website
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