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Northumberland Churches.

I enjoy your web site very much. I now live in Canada, but come from Lemmington, near Alnwick. I went to school in Bristol, but every school holiday was spent in and around Lemmington/ALnwick and Alnmouth, of course. It was good to see some of my favourite places - and a great photograph of St. John the Baptist in Edlingham, where I was christened. The last time I was there I could only see Northumberland from the train, but usually manage to spend a few days there, especially on the moors. Thanks for the nostalgia!!

Church of St. John the Baptist. at Edlingham, Northumberland. 11th c.

St. Cuthbert's. Elsdon, Northumberland.

St Cuthbert's Church is a complex building with origins in the 12th century. The church was once much larger than the building that stands today. It was rebuilt in the 14th century and has been added to and altered over the centuries. The aisles are very narrow. The church has thick outer walls and may have been built like this for defensive reasons. Restored in 1837 including the construction of the present south porch, further restoration took place in 1877.

St Barthomelew's Church, Whittingham, Northumberland.

Numerous alteration's and additions have resulted in a variety of architectural styles from the 8th century to the 20th century. Lower parts of the west wall and the tower seem to date from around 737AD. the masonry above is later Saxon and the upper section of the tower was rebuilt in 1839-40.

The Church of St Aidan's Bamburgh, Northumberland.

The church of St. Aidans, the current parish church, is the most recent of three churches. Aidan and Oswald constructed the first, in wood, probably on the same site as the present parish church, in about 635 A.D. Aidan died in 651. A shelter was constructed at the west end of the mission church for him while he was ill. A wooden buttress that he rested against was considered to have miraculous powers and survived the church being burnt down, not once but twice. The buttress is supposed to survive today as a beam in the baptistery of the parish church.
In 1121 King Henry I gave the Augustinian's the 'living' of Bamburgh. A hundred years later, across the road and a few hundred yards west of the present church the Dominicans established a monastery in an area now known as the 'Friars'. This existed till the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. The present day church was constructed principally between 1170-1230 remains of the Norman church can be see in a round headed window in the north transept.

The Parish Church of St. Peter, Chillingham, Northumberland.

15th century tomb of Sir Ralph Grey and his wife Elizabeth.

Church of St. Michael, Ingram, Northumberland.

The church of St Anne. Ancroft. Northumberland.

The church of St. Anne, believed to have been erected about the year 1090, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and a western tower with small flat-topped pinnacles at the angles, and a bell-cote on the roof containing 2 bells, one of which was taken from a Wesleyan chapel in London, when it was demolished: the tower was originally built as a pele tower: the church was restored in 1870, when the nave was lengthened, the chancel rebuilt, and a vestry added at the north-west angle.

The Parish Chest
EP 17/5 Burials 1813-1863

Page Name Abode Date Age
20/160 Name unknown A ship wrecked sailor found cast up by the tide on the sea shore near Scremerston Mill 21st February 1823 Appeared to be about 13 years of age
27/216 Name unknown A ship wrecked sailor found on the sea shore nigh Scrammerston Mill 11th March 1827 not known
40/315 A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm lost at Spittal Found at Scramerston November 10th 1834 19 years
40/316 A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm Found at Scramerston November 11th 1834 40 years
40/318 A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm Found at Cheswick November 17th 1834 25 years
40/319 A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm Found at Goswick Parish of Holy Island November 18th 1834 20 years
48/377 A ship-wrecked sailor Name not known found on Scremerston Beach 26th March 1838 about 16 years.

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Christina Rossetti

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