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Alnwick
Bamburgh Bothal
Cambo Chillingham
Hartburn Hexham Priory
Kirknewton
Meldon
Newcastle
Cathedral St John Lee Simonburn Stannington
Thockrington
Warkworth |
Chillingham
St Peter |
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Above:
Robert Charnocke (1691) Steward to Ford Lord
Grey.
Right: Sir Ralph Grey (1443) & Wife.
Tomb chest of c. 1450 with 14 saints separated by angels.
Alabaster effigies. Above Jacobean additions. |
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Bamburgh - St Aidan |
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John Sharp (1714) Archbishop of York. A seated
girl looks down beside the bust of the Archbishop on a
pedestal. By Chantrey 1839 |
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Kirknewton -
St Gregory the Great |
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| Andrew & Naria Bowrell
(1458) 'Pray to God for us'. Although an
incised slab, the heads and hands were set in brass, now
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'Near this spot was
interr'd the body of the Revd John Wedge MA,
vicar of this church for 52 years, who departed this
life 1732 in the 80th year of his age.
Also the body of his wife Elizabeth who
departed this life 1729 (?) Also three
of their children viz Mary, Catherine
and George.' In chancel |
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Meldon - St John |
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| Sir WilliamFEnwick
(1652) His wife, Meg O Meldon, was said
to have haunted the nearby bridge as a dog or a
white lady, intent on pushing travellers into
the river. She was not an attractive lady but a
miserly one and her ghost roams the earth in
seven year cycles looking for her hidden wealth.
Buried in Newminster Abbey. |
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Henry Askew (1796) & Dorothy
(1792) by
Henry Webber (1801) |
Newcastle upon Tyne
Cathedral Church of St Nicholas |

Admiral Lord Collingwood (1810)
by Rossi (1819) designed by C R Cockerell.
Exhibited Royal Academy 1820 and erected 1821 |

Calverley Bewicke (1815)
by E H Baily from a design by William Theed.
Exhibited Royal Academy 1819. |
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Above:
John Collingwood Bruce (1829) by George
Simonds 1890 (signed). Marble effigy; his feet rest on his
own book - 'Roman Wall'
Right: Bishop Arthur Thomas Lloyd. Effigy
by F W Pomeroy; designed by Oliver & Leeson (1908)
with alabaster effigy by F W Pomeroy |

Henry (1634) & Elizabeth
(1653) Maddison kneel facing each other; their
parent kneel at either side facing forwards; their 16 children
kneel below. |

William Hall (1631) & Jane (1613)
Erected by only son Alexander Hall |

Roger Thorton (1429) & Agnes
(1411) One of the largest brasses in the country and
dated 1441 |

Robert Hopper Williamson (1835)
by David Dunbar I (1838) designed by
William Dobson |

Sir Mathew White Ridley (1813)
by Flaxman , 1810 |

Mathew Ridley
(1778) by John
Bacon (1787) |
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Simonburn - St Mungo |
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Above: Figures from desecrated
tomb of Cuthbert Ridley (1637)
Right: Robert Lancelot Allgood (1854)
& Elizabeth by Mathew Noble 1866 |
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Stannington - St Mary the Virgin |
Warkworth - St Lawrence |

Sir Mathew White Ridley (1904)
by Sir Mathew White Ridley bronze effigy with
marble base by Detmar Blow |

A Knight of c. 1330 with the arms of
de Aublyn. The tomb chest is 17th century |
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Thockrington - St Aidan |
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14th century lady in sandstone
Lord Beveridge (1963), the social reformer is buried in the
churchyard
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With thanks to Joan & Robert Tucker and to Jean McCreanor for supplying all the
photographs and information in this section |
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