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Through the courtesy of Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., the 

 present tenant of Chillingham Castle and shootings, the new 

 approach from the East, which avoids the necessity of making 

 a detour through Chatton, was thrown open to the party, 



affording an easy descent to the entrance gate 

 Chillingham of the parish church, where the incumbent, 

 Church. Eev. Herbert Lunn, M.A., kindly attended to 



conduct them round the building. Dedicated 

 to St. Peter, it partly belongs to the Norman period, and 

 consists of a nave, at the South side of which is built a modern 

 stone-seated porch which covers the original Norman door-way, 

 and a chancel, considerably raised above the level of the main 

 floor with a chapel on the South enclosing the splendid altar- 

 tomb of Sir Ealph Grey and his lady, Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Henry, Lord Fitzhugh, of Ravensworth in Bichmondshire. Sir 

 Ralph was knighted in 1425, and appears to have been the 

 first of his family to have been in possession of Chillingham. 

 The tomb, which is oblong in shape and richly oi-namented, 

 is of marble, and has been adorned in red, and blue, and 

 gilt, being regarded as one of the finest specimens of its 

 kind in the Northern counties of England. The recumbent 

 figures are characteristic of the middle of the fifteenth century, 

 the knight being attired in a red tunic with many straps 

 and buckles, and the lady in loose flowing robes with her 

 hands clasped on her breast. Afiixed to the wall above 

 their heads, a full length figure in white supports a helmet 

 with the crest of Gray of Heton, whilst on each side are 

 representations of angels bearing heavenwards the souls of 

 the departed. A series of statuettes of saints fills niches on 

 three sides of the tomb, alternating with angels supporting 

 blank shields. The chapel in which this remarkable monu- 

 ment is situated forms the family pew of the Earls of 

 Tankerville. At the West end of the church a gallery for 

 the use of the children attending Sunday School was erected 

 in 1839, and on its North wall is carved a rude slab to the 

 memory of Robert Charnockle, stewart of Ford, Lord Gray, 

 who died in 1691. The font bears on its basin the date 

 1670, and an inscription in which the initials ^y^ are 

 engraven, as they are also on a stone of the same date in the 

 church of Ancroft. Attention was drawn to the architectural 



