Haltwhistle Holy Cross

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Haltwhistle Holy Cross

[Population 1911: 5,209]

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Church

The church of St. Aidan or Holy Cross, is an ancient edifice of stone of the Early English period, with modern additions, and consists of a fine chancel, with vestry on the north side, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a western turret, containing one bell: the chancel has a piscina and trefoiled sedilia, and at the east end lies the upper portion of the recumbent effigy of a knight bearing a shield with the arms of Blenkinsopp; here also is a fine tomb slab, carved with a rich floriated cross, and on one side a sword and shield of the Blenkisopp arms, and on the other a pilgrim's staff and scrip; there are also in the floor two other slabs with crosses and the arms of the Thirlwall family: against the south wall of the chancel is a stone with two shields and a rhyming inscription, dated 1562, to John Ridley, brother of Nicholas Ridley, D.D. bishop of London and martyr: the marble reredos, representing the "Adoration of the Magi," was presented by the late Mrs. Ives, at a cost of £400, in memory of her husband, the Rev. William Ives, 40 years vicar here, who died 16 March 1875: the stained east window was the gift of the Rev. Dixon Dixon-Brown M.A., J.P., D.L. of Unthank Hall, in memory of the late Dixon Dixon esq.; the west window is a memorial to the late John Blenkinsopp Coulson esq. (d. 1868), and was erected in 1871 by the late Misses Coulson, to whose memory two small stained windows were placed in 1885 by G.W.B. Coulson esq.: the font is dated 1676: the church was restored in 1871, at a cost of £3,000, and in 1877, a new organ, costing £300, was introduced; in 1881-2 the building was decorated throughout at a cost of £350, under the superintendence of Mr. Kemp, of London: there are sittings for 430 persons. The register dates from the year 1656. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £623, net yearly value £518, including about 300 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Newcastle, and held since 1869 by the Rev. Joseph Lowe M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, surrogate and hon. canon of Newcastle; the rectorial tithes are worth about £600 a year, and are the property of Sir Edward Blackett bart. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), page 775.]

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The Parish Chest

EP 65/25 Burials 1813-1838

Page	Name	Abode	Date	Age
123/983	A Traveller (name unknown)	died at Redpath	November 6 1830	about 50
140/1115	A Travelling Man	died at Haltwhistle	January 29 1833	supposed age from 70 to 80
157/1249	A Man unknown	Found in the Tyne near Melkridge	February 8 1835	supposed age 30

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Non-Parochial Records

Newcastle Courant 10/12/1831 [death] The 30th ult. at Westend-town, Mr Henry Pigg, late of Humshaugh, aged 25.

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Monumental Inscriptions

ERECTED
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN SAINT
of
Haltwhistle. Mason
who died Aug. 2. 1830;
Aged 43.
Also JANE his WIFE died Feb. 22.
1824; Aged 30.

Here Lieth the Body
of THOMAS BORROW
of the Stonhall who
Departed this Life
August y^e 29^d 1742 Aged 70[?]

THE BURIAL PLACE
of
THOMAS BELL
WOOLLEN-MANUFACTURER
HALTWHISTLE
JAMES HIS SON DIED
MARCH 19. 1820 AGED 16 Years.
JOHN his SON died January 11^th
1848 Aged 47 Years.
ADAM his Son died August 28, 1849
Aged 59 Years.
Also of THOMAS his SON who
died at FACTORY HOUSE MAY 12
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