Parish Notes Northumberland
Brinkburn Priory Sts Peter & Paul
[Population 1911: incl. with Longframlington]
Parish Notes Northumberland
[Population 1911: incl. with Longframlington]
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Brinkburn Priory founded for Augustinian Canons by William Bertram I of Mitford about 1135. After the dissolution the priory passed into lay hands and a house was established on its site. The church remained in use but began to decay and regular services lapsed in 1683, although burials continued. Restoration was carried out in 1857 for the Cadogan family by Newcastle architect Thomas Austin. After the house ceased to be occupied and the church again became disused it was placed in the guardianship of the State. The whole building is a superb example of the transition to northern Early Gothic architecture. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 94.]
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Berwick Advertiser 8/5/1813 Pedestrianism.- John Bell, sawyer in Carlisle, undertook, on Sunday, for a wager of five guineas, to walk to Brenkburn, in Northumberland, and return again, a distance of 124 miles, in 48 hours; which he completed one hour within the time, notwithstanding that he had walked from Brenkburn the day previous to commencing the undertaking.
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