828 Bamburgh Parish Church, by the Rev. W. Darnell. 



School and Dispensary, and also formed a permanent ar- 

 rangement for the preservation of the lives, and relief of the 

 wants of shipwrecked mariners. Appointed Trustee a.d. 1792. 



III. The Eeverend Thomas Sharp, D.D. (third son of Thomas 

 Sharp, D.D.). Rector of All-Hallows, in London, and per- 

 petual Curate of Bamburgh. Appointed to the Curacy a.d. 

 1757. Died 1772. 



IV. The Reverend Andrew Bowlt, who took the name of Sharp 

 on his marriage with Catherine, grand-daughter of Thomas 

 Sharp, D.D, who was for 43 years the respected Minister of 

 Bamburgh. 



" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that 

 they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them." 



Rev. xiv., 13. 



There is also a touching inscription on a marble monument 

 affixed to the north wall of the chancel, of the date of 1711, 

 by Dorothea, Lady Crewe, daughter of Sir Wm. Forster, of 

 Bamburgh, to the memory of her brothers William, John, 

 and Ferdinando, " as the last respect that could be paid 

 them for their true affection to the church, the monarchy, 

 their country, and their sister." Under the eastern end of 

 the chancel, there is a fine crypt in two divisions, lighted by 

 small lancets, and of very beautiful early-English architec- 

 ture. It was evidently used as a chapel in former times ; 

 for there are traces of the stone altar, there is the staple in 

 the groined roof from which the lamp was suspended, and 

 there is the piscina. The south wall is also pierced by a 

 lancet window. There is a large doorway which now gives 

 access to the crypt from the outside. The coffins of several 

 members of the Forster family were deposited in this vaulted 

 chamber ; and from the year 1765 or some later year, till the 

 year 1837, when it was excavated, it seems to have been 

 closed up as a private vault. At that date five coffins were 

 lowered into the ground beneath, and stone slabs inscribed 

 were placed over each of them. I submit a drawing of this 

 curious and interesting crypt, by Mr Hodgson Fowler, 

 architect to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



In passing through the Churchyard, the monumental 

 effigy of Grace Darling, the heroine of the Fame Islands, with 

 its canopy of stone, designed by Mr Raymond Smith, of 

 London, and presented to the Trustees of Lord Crewe by 

 Mrs Catherine Sharp, attracts many a passing visitor to the 

 spot. She died on the 20th October, 1842 ; and her remains 



