Bywell St Andrew

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Bywell St Andrew

[Population 1911: 712]

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The church of St. Andrew, or the "White Church," so called from having belonged to the Premonstratensian monks of Blanchland, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English Lancet style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, south porch and a lofty western tower of reputed Saxon date and containing 2 bells: the belfry stage is pierced on each side by coupled lights, divided by a rude shaft, the whole being a large semi-circular arch, in the trympanum of which is a small circular opening, and there are similar openings on each side: in the porch is a stoup, and there are several slabs with crosses, and a portion of another with carved knot-work of unusual design: the church was restored about 1858, and in 1870 a north transept and organ chamber were erected: it has 180 sittings. The register dates from the year 1668. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £71, net yearly value £159, including glebe, with residence, in the gift of Wentworth Blackett Beaumont esq. M.P. and held since 1866 by the Rev. Henry Slater M.A. of St. Catharine College, Cambridge, hon. canon at Newcastle. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), pages 739-40.]

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