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ancient glebe land of the rectory of Warkworth, long part 

 of the possessions of the see of Carlisle. After passing 

 the farmsteads of Amble New-hall and Amble Hope, and 

 through Togston village, with its two ancient embowered 

 mansions, the modern colliery village of Chevington 

 Broom-hill was reached, with its rows of monotonous, but 

 comfortable, miners' dwelling houses. The carriage road ran 

 straight south through the parochial chapelry of Chevington, 

 past the modern whin-stone church of St. John, over a bridge 

 spanning the Chevington burn, leaving Whitefield on the right. 

 An extensive eastward prospect commands a view of the sea, 

 and the maritime plain from Hauxley to Cresswell was rich 

 with fields of heavy crops of oats reaped and to reap. 



Widdrington Church stands on a knoll in a small grass park 

 adorned with some fine trees, and was formerly a parochial 

 chapel within the rectory, and dependent on the vicarage of 

 "Woodhorn. The level of the small graveyard has been 

 considerably raised by the burial of at least twenty generations. 

 The building is well maintained and kept, and has been fully 

 described by the Rev. John Hodgson in his History, and by 

 Mr Longstaff in the third volume of the Archceologia uS^liana, 

 and more lately by the Eev. William Greenwell, who says : — 



" Widdrino;ton Charch consists of a nave, with two aisles, and a 

 chancel, and has a bell turret at the west end. The north aisle wall 

 is modern, but the arcade of three bays is of the latter part of the 

 twelfth century. The south aisle is of fourteenth century date, the 

 south door, which is boldly moulded, having been built at the same 

 time. The eastern-most column of the arcade supports, in addition 

 to the arches of the arcade, another arch, which spans the aisle from 

 north to south, an effective feature in the design. The chancel has 

 an east window of three lights; it is of a late fourteenth century 

 date, and of an uncommon type. On the north side of the chancel 

 are two recesses, which once contained either effigies or grave covers ; 

 over the arch of one of these are the arms of Widdrington (quarterly 

 over all a bend.) In the south wall, formed in the bottom of a 

 window, is a sedile, which has a piscina on its east side, consisting 

 of a short shaft, with the capital hollowed out for the bowl, of a 

 date not later than 1200. Immediately east of it is a second piscina, 

 which contains a shelf, and has served for an aumbry in addition 

 to its other uses. There are two sepulchral slabs, with crosses, one 

 in the head of the north door of the chancel."* 



* Transactions of the Durham and Northumberland Architectural and 

 Archaeological Society, 1892-1895, pp. xxix-xxx. 



