Alnwick St Paul

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Alnwick St Paul

[Population 1911: 4,628 incl. 112 persons enumerated in the Alnwick Union Workhouse]

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Alnwick St Paul.

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St. Paul's Church, in the Green Bat, was built and endowed in 1846, at the sole expense of the third Duke of Northumberland, at a cost of £12,000; it is a handsome stone structure, in the Decorated Gothic style: the roof is high pitched and open, stained in imitation of oak, and the sittings are massive oak benches. A memorial window has been erected in the chancel, designed by W. Dyce, esq., R.A., and executed by the royal manufactory at Munich; the subject is The Preaching of the Apostles Paul and Barnabas at Antioch; the picture occupies the five lower lights, the tracery being filled with ornamental patterns; the scene is represented as taking place within a recess of Gothic architecture, the back of which is pierced with windows, through which the blue sky appears, whilst the front is open, upon which are represented the family coat of arms of the Percys, and the arms of several baronies to which the Duke was entitled, and also the following inscription:- "In the year 1856 this window was placed, by public subscriptions, to the much valued memory of Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland;" a fine recumbent figure, in Caen stone, by Carew, of London, of the founder of the church, habited in his robes as a Knight of the Garter, is placed on a tomb. The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £215, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland; and held by the Rev. Henry Murray Oswald, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1873), page 487.]

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