Chillingham St Peter

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Chillingham St Peter

[Population 1911: 220]

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The church of St. Peter is an ancient building in the Norman and Early Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, shallow north transept, large south transept, nave, south porch and a tall gabled bell-cote on the western gable of the nave containing one bell: in the south transept is the fine altar tomb of Sir Ralph Grey of Werke, knighted at Leicester in 1425 by King Henry VI. ob. 1497, and of his wife Elizabeth (Fitzhugh), with recumbent effigies of both in alabaster; the sides of the tomb are panelled and enriched with figures and shields of arms, and the whole has been coloured and gilt: the font, originally belonging to Ancroft church, bears on the bowl the date 1670: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1692. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £384, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Newcastle, and held since 1866 by the Rev. Joseph Hudson M.A. formerly fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), page 745.]

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