Parish Notes Northumberland
Woodhorn St Mary the Virgin
[Population 1911: 4,092]
Parish Notes Northumberland
[Population 1911: 4,092]
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The church of St. Mary is a neat stone building, restored in 1843, in the Early English and Norman styles. consisting of chancel, nave, low tower, and old porch: it contains three stained glass memorial windows of the Cresswell family, and also one to the Watson family: there are several marble tablets to these families. The register dates from the year 1605. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelries of Newbiggin and Cresswell annexed, joint yearly value £600, in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, and held by the Rev. Edward Nangreave Mangin, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1873), page 686.]
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EP 22/26 Burials 1813-1878
| Page | Name | Abode | Date | Age |
| 1/6 | A Drowned Man | Name unknown | July 18th 1813 | - |
| 25/196 | A sailor - name unknown, supposed to be one of the Crew of the Ship Mary from Chichester wrecked off this coast | - | 1830 Febry 9th | - |
| 26/201 | A sailor - name unknown supposed to be one of the Crew of the Ship Mary wrecked off this Coast | - | April 1st 1830 | - |
| 27/213 | A sailor - name unknown | - | Febry 3rd 1831 | - |
| 27/214 | A sailor - name unknown | - | Febry 11 1831 | - |
| 27/216 | A sailor boy - name unknown | - | March 12th 1831 | - |
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Newcastle Courant 22/4/1826 [death] On the 7th inst. at Woodhorn Moor, Joseph Pigg, aged 18, son of the late Mr Thomas Pigg.
Newcastle Courant 20/6/1845 The Rev. T.R. Shipperdson, Vicar of Woodhorn, has received from Mrs Lawrence, of Studley Park, the liberal donation of £10 in aid of the funds for the rebuilding of Newbiggin Church.
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