Alnham St Michael

Parish Notes Northumberland

Alnham St Michael & All Angels

[Population 1911: 187]

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Church

The church of St. Michael, built about the year 1135, consists of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are seven ancient tombs in the church, five in the nave and two at the west end: the octagonal stone font, dating from 1664, has a mullet and a crescent carved upon it: there are 110 sittings. The register dates from the year 1714. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £130, net yearly value £180, including six acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland K.G. and held since 1887 by the Rev. William David Ground, of King's College, London. The old vicarage, built in the reign of Edward III, fell into ruins in 1643, but was restored by the Duke of Northumberland in 1844: the upper story of the old fabric, generally called the "Peel Tower," is embatteld. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), page 702.]

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