Kirknewton Northumberland
Church of St Gregory, Kirknewton Northumberland - there Has been a place of Christian worship on this site since at least the 11c , possibly earlier. The present building consists of a north-west tower, south porch, 4 bay nave with lancet windows, north aisle, south transept and chancel.
Excavations have shown that the westward extent of the present chancel also marks the limit of the 13c Norman church. The building was originally cruciform and there was a known incumbent from 1153 to 1197. The Church Guide says that there was an unusually long chancel compared with the nave. The church served a parish of 40,000 acres containing 15 medieval settlements.
A north aisle added during the Early English period was destroyed at some time . Indeed because of Kirknewton's position it was ruined in border wars during several periods to such an extent that the Bishop of Durham authorised the incumbent of 1436 to say mass at any safe place outside the church. The unsafe situation produced the thick walls and small windows in the rebuilding of the chancel and south transept later in the century.
All was restored by John Dobson of Newcastle in 1860 who rebuilt the nave , north aisle, south porch and later the tower .
(Pevsner says “their barbaric qualities match … perfectly our vision of what the Borders were like. …Dobson had no feeling for that character ....... nd simply put up with these barbarities and made a neat and correct building of a good period.”
There are two fonts: one at entrance to transept is 18c marble with baluster stem; the other at west end of nave dated 1663, has an ornamental panelled octagonal shaft and bowl. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9noc92Z1HP
In the south transept almost contemporary with its rebuilding is the gravestone of Andrew Burrell 1458 & wife Maria www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/615Zn9e4V7
A monument to Rev. John Werge 1732 in the chancel: has profile heads in place of capitals and well carved memento mori in the pediment. flic.kr/p/Kb5Xk
In the graveyard are buried British, Canadian and New Zealand pilots who lost their lives, some in training, whilst based at RAF Milfield during World War II www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/E3Q5Wp7479
There is also a window inside to their memory www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4anrUKV588
Also in the graveyard is a WW1 memorial to 2 brothers Captain Beauchamp Henry Selby & Prideaux Joseph Selby the only children of Beauchamp Prideaux Selby 1918 of Pawston, MIndrum www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2t479rHND6
Interior: www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x48875c21730fd8b3%3A0xfe6...
www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/kirknewton.html
Memorials:
www.coldstreamhistorysociety.co.uk/category/projects/tran...
Copyright Lisa Jarvis CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/411348
Kirknewton Northumberland
Church of St Gregory, Kirknewton Northumberland - there Has been a place of Christian worship on this site since at least the 11c , possibly earlier. The present building consists of a north-west tower, south porch, 4 bay nave with lancet windows, north aisle, south transept and chancel.
Excavations have shown that the westward extent of the present chancel also marks the limit of the 13c Norman church. The building was originally cruciform and there was a known incumbent from 1153 to 1197. The Church Guide says that there was an unusually long chancel compared with the nave. The church served a parish of 40,000 acres containing 15 medieval settlements.
A north aisle added during the Early English period was destroyed at some time . Indeed because of Kirknewton's position it was ruined in border wars during several periods to such an extent that the Bishop of Durham authorised the incumbent of 1436 to say mass at any safe place outside the church. The unsafe situation produced the thick walls and small windows in the rebuilding of the chancel and south transept later in the century.
All was restored by John Dobson of Newcastle in 1860 who rebuilt the nave , north aisle, south porch and later the tower .
(Pevsner says “their barbaric qualities match … perfectly our vision of what the Borders were like. …Dobson had no feeling for that character ....... nd simply put up with these barbarities and made a neat and correct building of a good period.”
There are two fonts: one at entrance to transept is 18c marble with baluster stem; the other at west end of nave dated 1663, has an ornamental panelled octagonal shaft and bowl. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9noc92Z1HP
In the south transept almost contemporary with its rebuilding is the gravestone of Andrew Burrell 1458 & wife Maria www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/615Zn9e4V7
A monument to Rev. John Werge 1732 in the chancel: has profile heads in place of capitals and well carved memento mori in the pediment. flic.kr/p/Kb5Xk
In the graveyard are buried British, Canadian and New Zealand pilots who lost their lives, some in training, whilst based at RAF Milfield during World War II www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/E3Q5Wp7479
There is also a window inside to their memory www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4anrUKV588
Also in the graveyard is a WW1 memorial to 2 brothers Captain Beauchamp Henry Selby & Prideaux Joseph Selby the only children of Beauchamp Prideaux Selby 1918 of Pawston, MIndrum www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2t479rHND6
Interior: www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x48875c21730fd8b3%3A0xfe6...
www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/kirknewton.html
Memorials:
www.coldstreamhistorysociety.co.uk/category/projects/tran...
Copyright Lisa Jarvis CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/411348