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have been between 1150 and 1200, wben the ancient Church 

 was preserved intact till such time as money could be 

 obtained for its restoration. The later building possesses 

 greatly superior quality, the workmanship proving more 

 enduring and of better skill and taste, and its leading 

 features being those common to the Early English period. 

 The chancel and aisles were rebuilt in 1877, during the incum- 

 bency of Rev. James Allgood, the present patron. The living 

 has been continuously a Eectory, and as such was successively 

 valued.^"'' In regard to the list of Rectors it is noteworthy 

 that in April 1291 Pope Nicholas IV. granted indulgence to 

 William de Montfort, Dean of St. Paul's, London, and Papal 

 Chamberlain, to hold the Rectory of Ingram, while in February 

 1306 Pope Clement V. granted the like privilege to Walter 

 Reginald, Rector of Wimbledon in the diocese of Winchester, 

 and Treasurer to the Prince of Wales, along with a canonry 

 and prebend of St. Paul's. Reference may be also made to 

 entries in the Parish Registers setting forth that such and such 

 a parishioner had been buried "not in any material of flax, 

 but in wool," whose explanation is to be found in the 

 practice of imposing fines, in the interests of home products, 

 upon such as through favoured circumstances could afford to 

 swathe their dead in imported materials. Before leaving, the 

 members visited the grave of Mrs Allgood, who with her 

 two sons perished in the railway accident at Abbotts Ripton, 

 January 21st 1876, and through the President warmly 

 acknowledged the Rector's kind interest in their meeting. 



At 12-45 the journey was resumed, the road, which was 

 very rough, following the windings of the river, and being 

 hemmed in by precipitous hills on either side. On the 

 right and left respectively sloped the Reaveley and Ingram 

 "glidders," or gliding stones (Anglo-Saxon — glidan, to glide), 

 while the uplands clad with verdure gave indication of ample 

 pasturage. Amid the bracken and luxuriant herbage scattered 

 bushes of Alder and Thorn lent a pleasing variety. After 

 again fording the Breamish at a point below Greenshaw, 

 where a serviceable bridge was in the course of construction, 



* Vide "Ingram Church" by Rev. A, C, C, Vaughan, M,A, B.N.C,, 

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