Church of St Matthew, Wolsingham, County Durham

The church, situated on rising ground to the north-west of the town, is an ancient and neat plain edifice, with a low tower, and has a font of Weardale marble, beautifully variegated with petrifactions of shells.

Church of St Oswald, Sowerby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire

The church of St. Oswald at Sowerby is almost entirely modern, most of it having been rebuilt between 1840 and 1883, while the north aisle and vestry were added in 1902. That there was a building here in the 12th century is shown by the south doorway, which is a good example of the work of that period. The semicircular arch is of three orders, the inner one being moulded with rounds and hollows, the middle one enriched with beak heads, and the outer order with the chevron. The only other old work is the lower part of the tower, which is probably of 15th-century date.

From ‘Parishes: Thirsk’, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1923)

Church of St Oswald, Hartlepool

Church, 1897-1904, by W.S. Hicks. Dressed, snecked limestone, with quoins; Lakeland slate roof. Quasi-Perpendicular style. High clerestoried and aisled nave and chancel, transepts, and west tower with north and south porches.

Town Hall, Middlesbrough

Town hall and Municipal Buildings, 1883/89 by G.G. Hoskins (Darlington). Statues by W. Margeston (Chelsea). Sandstone ashlar. Lakeland slate roofs. Municipal buildings on 4 sides of courtyard, town hall adjoins north side, fronting onto Corporation Road. French Gothic style; Domestic Revival style courtyard elevations.

Ropner Park, East Hartburn, Stockton

The ornamental fountain at Ropner Park

Ropner Park is a free public park, located in East Hartburn, Stockton.

In June 1890 Major Robert Ropner offered a piece of land, known locally as Hartburn Fields to the people of Stockton which could be used as a public park, providing the local council would lay it out ‘tastefully’ and ‘keep it forever’. On 4 October 1893, Ropner Park was officially opened by the then Duke & Duchess of York. The ceremony involved the royals using an ornate key to open the Golden Gates.

After a century of regular use by the people of Stockton, the park was refurbished and renovated to its former glory between 2004 and 2007 by Stockton Borough Council, thanks to a £2.65m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Park is a roughly square site, with 20th-century railings along its road boundaries and is typically Victorian in style, with rockeries and floral displays. It has a tree-lined avenue which leads to an ornamental fountain and a pavilion with a veranda and also includes a new bandstand, based on the original design, a park ranger’s office, bowling green, quoits green, tennis courts and a cafe, (run by the local charity, The Friends of Ropner Park). A large lake with islands dominates the lower part of the park and offers sanctuary to various species of water fowl and fish.

Seasonal fairs and occasional organised events are staged at the park throughout the year and various bands feature most Sunday afternoons during the summer months.

St Mary RC Church, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees

Roman Catholic church. Opened 1842. Design attributed to A W N Pugin, later additions north transept, east vestries and apparently the tower – by Messrs C Hadfield & Sons. 4 bay aisled nave with gabled clerestory lights; 2 bay chancel with apse. West front Early English: central pointed doorway of several orders and label. Above are 5 lancets with triple keeled shafts and dog-tooth upper mouldings. Vesica window in coped gable. Pair of lancets at west end of south aisle. Tower at north west corner. 5 styles with set back buttresses having pointed terminals containing blind cusped tracery. Embattled parapet. 2nd stage of tower has 2 tall lancets with drilled patterns in jambs. The north entrance, under the tower, also with drilled jambs. Main porch to south. Gabled chapel to south west. 4 bay window to interior with organ loft bay to west.

Church of St Mary, Ingleton, North Yorkshire

The church of St. Mary the Virgin has frequently been rebuilt and most of the present building, with the exception of the 15th century tower, dates from 1886. Perhaps the major claim to fame of Ingleton’s church has nothing to do with architecture, but everything to do with literature. It seems that writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle combined the last name of Reverend Sherlock, rector of Ingleton in the 1870s, with that of Reverend Holmes of nearby Mason Gill, to create his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was married at nearby Thornton and his mother lived at Mason Gill.

Acklam Hall, Middlesbrough

Manor house, c.1683 for Sir William Hustler, in the reign of Charles II, standing in a large park approached by a fine avenue of ancient firs and lime trees. It was entirely refronted and otherwise altered and restored about 1845. Additions were made to the house in 1911. As originally built, it was a plain two-story brick building with square-headed windows and a middle doorway, all with architraves and pediments, and a straight roof broken in the middle by a turret. There were extensive formal gardens on the north side. The reconstructed elevations are of brick with curved gables, the later additions being of more pronounced Renaissance type.

Nunthorpe Hall, Nunthorpe Village

Manor house, c.1623, largely rebuilt and extended c.1800 and altered mid-C19. Mid/late C19 north-east service extensions. Entrance porch and projecting bay of garden front added 1901. Converted to home for elderly 1951. Dressed sandstone; Lakeland slate roofs, with stone ridge copings. 7-bay (south) garden front has slightly-projecting centre bay, with doorway, up 2 steps. Arms of Pease and Gurney quartered in tympanum. Sash windows with glazing bars, in hollow-chamfered flat surrounds; 6-pane middle window in eared architrave. 2 corniced ridge stacks.

Church of St Cuthbert, Ormesby

The church of St. Cuthbert was almost entirely rebuilt in 1875, and the structure has therefore little or no antiquarian interest. A number of old stones, however, and other fragments of the ancient building are incorporated within the walls or are preserved inside the church. Three of these are of pre-Conquest date.