Alston - Church of St Augustine of Canterbury

The Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, is the fourth to be built on the site and legend has it that St Augustine actually came here in the 7th century. The church gate contains the arms of the Durham Diocese and the Royal Greenwich Hospital. Inside the church is a 17th century clock, (believed to have been the property of the executed Earl of Derwentwater), and the foundation stone of the market cross, erected by the locally born William Stephenson, Lord Mayor of London in 1764.