152 Rev. Wm. Procter, jun., on Doddington. 



infra comitatum Northumbrise," compiled about A.D. 1460. 

 Nor is Doddington mentioned in a view and survey of the 

 East and Middle Marches, with a description of the state of 

 the castles, towers, barmekyns, and fortresses, by Sir Robert 

 Bowes and Sir Raufe Ellerker, knights., commissioners, 2 

 Dec, 1542, 33 Hen. 8. 



In 1582,— 24th Elizabeth— Parliament passed a Bill for 

 the better defence of the Marches, and the building of towers 

 and fortresses. In consequence of this, Sir Thomas Grey, of 

 Wark and Chillingham, instead of repairing the old towers 

 at Fenton, and at Nesbit, built a new tower at Doddington ; 

 which is still standing almost as it stood when the following 

 inscription was built into the wall of its battlements : — 



T. G. MILES HVIVS STRVCTVTtE 

 SVPTVM FECIT. A.D. 1584. 



The building has a large room on the ground floor, and three 

 stories, one large room in each, extending the whole length, 

 and reached by a spiral stone staircase built on to the south, 

 and covered. The roof is now covered with red tiles, and 

 has a battlement to the north and south. Before the build- 

 ing of the North Farm House, it was occupied as a residence 

 by the first separate tenant of the North Farm ; afterwards 

 as a granary and wool store. Now, the decayed state of the 

 upstair flooring renders it of little use. 



The Church. — But by far the oldest and most interesting 

 building in Doddington is the church. That there existed a 

 chapel here before the year 1224, is certain ; for the chapel of 

 Doddington is mentioned as belonging to the church of 

 Chatton, in a deed settling the temporalities of the church 

 of Chatton and its chapels, between the vicars of Chatton and 

 the abbot and convent of Alnwick, by Richard de Marisco, 

 Bishop of Durham, in the eighth year of his episcopate; of 

 which the first year according to Raine, was a.d. 1217, and 

 therefore his eighth year would commence a.d. 1224. This 

 original chapel had probably been built at the instance of the 

 monks of Holy Island before the Norman conquest; but 

 nothing remained of it at the beginning of the present in- 

 cumbency, 1st December, 1834. All that then remained was 

 the double nave, mutilated, as it still is, of half its northern 

 wing or aisle, and the additional nave, or baptistery, west of 

 the large arch. This arch, and the three arches dividing the 

 main nave into north and south aisles, are good specimens of 



