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St Andrew’s Church St Andrew’s Revd Mr Hudson S.E. corner of The Abbey church is a noble looking
(Per. Curacy) Church Revd Mr Singleton this place Structure built about the year 680 Ó¿
St Andrew’s Church Mr Dinning by St Wilfrid it has been connected
St Andrew’s Mr Gibson with the Abbey but the ancient
Church Ó¿ The church & monastery was totally Parish church, St Mary’s, had fallen
405 Private}Sittings destroyed in A.D. 875. & Rebuilt in into such a runious state that a com-
205 Free } 1112. See Hutchinsons View of Northumberland pact was entered into between the [Impro]-
V.1 P.91 &c priator & the Parishioners, to abandon
St Mary’s and keep in repair the Abbey
Church, making it the Parish Church
in the later part of the 16th century
Mr B Beaumont Esqr has built
a very handsome front to it last
year at his own expense & cleared
the away the old buildings which
obstructed the view. The Tower contains
a fine peal of eight Bells
the minister is the Revd Mr
Hudson
M Costelloe c/a

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