9^ A'NTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



tlie organ. The portraitures of our Blefled Lord, and his Apof- 

 tles, and the Virgin Mary, are painted on the pannels. The 

 quire is a fine fabric, the altar large, with a good light. The 

 latter was repaired by the late Sir William Blackett ; as was the 

 whole church by a brief, 1725, towards which 10407. was col- 

 lected. It ftill calls for farther affiflance, and implores the cha- 

 rity of fome benevolent and good patron. The floor is moflly 

 covered with anticnt grave-ftones. Many have been inlaid with 

 brafs, and others with croziers. They arc very intire, after they 

 have been trod under foot for fo many ages. 



By the north door, at the entrance into the crofs-ifle, on the 

 left hand, is the effigies in ilone of .Henry Beaufort, Duke of So- 

 weifet, a Knight Templer, taken prifoner and beheaded at Hexham 

 by K. Edivard IV. He is habited as ufual, in a coat of mail, with 

 a fword and Tcutcheon of arms, viz. or on a fez. az. three garbs 

 proper. At his feet is a dog couched, an emblem .of watchful- 

 nefs. It has no infcription. 



Near the fame door, on the right hand, is a flat funeral-Hone, 

 very antient. It has a crozier upon it, and this infcription. 



HIC JACET THOMAS DE DIVILSTONE. 



On the pavement of the fame floor, near the nave of the church, 

 is a Hone-coffin, with a Hone-cover. 



Under an arch, at the entrance of the north ifle of the quire 

 is an antient funeral monument, faid to be the fepulture of Alf- 

 ivold, King of Northumberland, aflaffinated by Sigga, a factious Lord 

 -of his court, m Cilchefter, now Waht)ick-Chefters t Sept. 23. 



(c) Hoi. Chron. Vol. i. L. vi. p. 135. 



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