... ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. i.-g 



It is a well-built town, of one long and wide ftreet, on a flope ; 

 a covered market-crofs, nearly in the center; on a fquare pi- 

 nacle at the top, on the eaft fide, this inscription,-" 



Erecled by Sir John Sivinburn, Bart. 1736. His coat armorial 

 on the other fide. 



It has an annual fair, April 21; and another on Holy Thurf- 

 day ; alfo one the Thurfday after the a6th day of Auguft. 



Oppofite to the market-crofs, on the fouth fide, is a free-fchool, 

 founded by Sir Thomas Widdrington, Km. 1663, who endowed it 

 with the land at the Hugh, pleafantly fituated at the eaft end of 

 the town ; Hoping to the river Pont, valued, at that time, at 10 /. 

 and in 1727, at 40 /. and now at 80 /. per annum. 



On the weft fide of the market-crofs, is the church. It has 

 three ifles, and a gallery at the weft end. In the north wall of 

 the chancel, in a nich, is the effigies in (tone of a knight tem- 

 pler, in the ufual habit and attitude, faid to have been one of the 

 Fenwicks, of Fenivick-Toiuer (o). 



To the poor of this parifh, Henry Pajlon, of Black HeJdon, Gent. 

 by a deed made, i4th March, 1698, gave 12 /. per annum, out of 

 the rents of his eftate at Black Heddon and Wallridge ; to be diftri- 

 buted by the minifter and church-wardens at four feveral terms, 

 viz. iftMay, ift Auguft, nth November, and ad February (p). 



On the fouth fide of the church, is the vicarage-houfc ; lately 

 repaired, with large additions, after an elegant manner, by the 



(o) MS. penes Guliclm. Fenwick^ de Bywell, Arm, 



fp) Account of the Charities mTynedale, by the Rev. Mr. Ritfchel. 



Rev. 



