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St. Gregory's Church, Kirknewton. Northumberland.

The church building: A place of Christian worship has stood on this site since the eleventh century – or earlier. The chancel and south transept both date from the latter part of the fifteenth century – probably built with stones from the ruined Norman church. The church in its present form is the result of a restoration by John Dobson of Newcastle, completed in 1860.

As you enter the churchyard you will be struck by the war graves of young airmen who died flying out of the Milfield airbase during the Second World War. At the far side of the churchyard is a mausoleum to the Davidson family. Davidson was Chandler to Horatio Nelson – and his monument can be seen on top of the hill across the valley.

The great treasure of the church is the ancient stone relief of the adoration of the Magi set in the wall north of the chancel arch.

St Michael The Archangel Church, Alnham, Northumberland

The church was built about 1135, and contains seven ancient tombs. The vicarage was built in the time of Edward III. and restored in 1844, and includes an embattled peel tower.

St. Bartholomew's Kirkwhelpington. Northumberland.

St Bartholemew's church at Kirkwhelpington, was the place where the Reverend John Hodgson wrote the greater part of his classic seven volume History of Northumberland between 1823 and 1832. The village is also noted as the burial place of Charles Algernon Parsons, (1854 - 1931), inventor of the steam turbine engine.

Holy Trinity Church, Old Bewick, Northumberland.

There are no written records of the church before 1695 but tradition has it that the Manor of Bewick was given by Queen Maud to Tynemouth Priory in 1107, in memory of her royal father, Malcolm Canmore, slain at Alnwick in 1093 and buried at Tynemouth.The oldest part of the church is 12th Century and the church is said to have been damaged by the Scots in their invasion in the late 13th Century. In many ways the atmosphere of the church is as much about the outside and it's location as it is about it's architecture. The name Bewick is said to come from "beau" (Norman French for beautiful) and "wick" (Saxon for village). Nowadays Old Bewick is quiet and isolated, the few cottages nestling under the surrounding hill scarcely constituting a hamlet. Yet centuries ago it was a thriving market town; in 1253 Henry III granted a charter to hold a weekly market.

The village church, Northumberland.

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