Parish Notes Northumberland

Whittingham St Bartholomew

[Population 1911: 1,304]

Church

The church of St. Bartholomew, restored and repaired in 1840, at a cost of £1,200, is now chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: the lower part of the tower is supposed to date from the 9th century, the upper portion, which was of the highest interest and value, having been destroyed, in spite of the remonstrances of the most eminent antiquaries, in 1841: the clock was erected by subscription at a cost of £130 in 1887: the octagonal font is supported by a carved stone pillar: There are tablets to the Collingwood, Liddell, Hargreave, Law and Pawson families: in the north transept is a handsome marble monument erected by the parishioners of Whittingham, at a cost of £80, to Lieut. Reginald Cyril Goodenough, of the 97th Regiment of Foot, aged 18, who fell on the 8th of September, 1855, whilst leading a portion of his regiment to the attack on the Redan, at Sebastopol: the stained east window and a small window in the baptistery are memorials to the Rev. R.W. Goodenough M.A. late vicar, erected by parishioners and friends in 1881: a handsome window in the south aisle commemorates one of the ancestors of F.W.J. Collingwood esq. (1887): there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1655. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £505, net yearly value £600, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, and held since 1881 by the Rev. William Shield B.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1890), page 1072.]

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The Parish Chest

EP 114/15 Burials 1813-1841

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Monumental Inscriptions

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