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Ingram Church. 



By the late Rev. A. C. C. Vaughan, Rector of Ingram, 

 Northumberland.^ 



This is an interesting old edifice ; but like many such 

 structures, its history, which might have been with fair fulness 

 and certainty read in itself had it come down to us in its 

 integrity, has been sadly effaced not more, if so much, by the 

 ravages of centuries, as by the hands of men who, to save 

 the cost of needful repairs, have pulled down portions of 

 which in their ignorance they have lost sight of the beauty 

 or i-eligious use, or in their blinded infatuation have eagerly 

 demolished as tending to the encouragement of what they 

 falsely conceived to be idolatry. However, enough remains 

 to afford us a rough outline of its course. There had been 

 a prior Church upon the same site of the Norman style, as 

 evidenced by portions of its bold mouldings remaining here 

 and there in the present building ; and when we were lately 

 restoring the tower, and had pulled down pieces of it that 

 stood against the West end of tlie nave, we found that the 

 tower had been built up with a straight joint against that 

 West end which had been before that pointed, showing that 

 it had been an outside wall before the tower was built. 

 That West end wall had traversed the East side of the 

 tower. The foundations which we met with there, when we 

 were preparing to relay the floor with tiles and replace the 

 font, proved this ; but in the course of ages it had bulged 



1 The Rev. A, C, C. Vanghan, of Worcester College, Oxford, incumbent 

 of Lanjbley, was presented to the rectory of Ingram in 1895, retired 

 In 1908, and died at BatU, June 1909, aged 75.-?;d, 



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