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and the windows of the nave on the North wall are also 

 semi-circular, on the outer wall flanked by flat pilasters, and 

 on the inner supported by shafts on the angles, with moulded 

 bases and scalloped capitals. In course of time a tower of 

 three stages was erected at the West end, which at a later 

 date was finished with a stone spire, a distinction shared 

 alone with Newbiggin among the churches of Northumberland. 

 Towards the close of the 15th century the most extensive altera- 

 tion was carried out by the addition of a South aisle with 

 an arcade of five bays, and a porch with groined roof and 

 upper chamber, in which for years accommodation was 

 found for the parish school. Still more recent changes have 

 added nothing to the dignity of the building, a fine 15th 

 century window in the East having been replaced by a triple 

 light of Norman design, and the fine massive oak roof 

 of the nave, corresponding with that of the South aisle still 

 intact, having been exchanged for a high-pitched, plain one 

 of pine. Among other architectural features of note may be 

 mentioned a circular stair-case constructed in the North-East 

 angle of the nave, and affording access to the space above 

 the chancel vaulting ; two massive buttresses on the North 

 wall apparently added at the time of the erection of the 

 tower ; and a stone on the ground level of the vestry pierced 

 by three slits, whose purpose has not been satisfactorily 

 determined. Attention may also be directed to a silver chalice 

 made in Newcastle by John Wilkinson in 1665; a cover and 

 a paten also made in Newcastle by William Ramsay in 1685, 

 all of silver ; and a silver-headed staff formerly borne by the 

 parish clerk, as he headed the ancient funeral processions. 

 Conspicuous near the main door leading from the town, and 

 supported on a Jacobean base which bears the inscription: — 

 "The effigies of Sir Hugh of Morwicke who gave the common 

 to this town of Warkworth," lies the figure of a knight, with 

 his hands clasping his heart, clad in a mixed armour of 

 mail and plates, reminiscent of the early part of the 14th 

 century, though no very trustworthy record of the person so 

 commemorated has as yet been discovered. At the West end 

 of the nave hangs the scutcheon bearing the royal arms, 

 probably of James II., which before the restoration of 1860 

 occupied a place of honour above the chancel arch. It is 



