tlBfORt O^ tUte MteSlTll^GS t^Ok 1896 6d 



of Morpeth, until it was cut off during the rectorship of the Hon. 

 and Rev. Francis Grey, and endowed with the glebe within and 

 the tithes arising from the lands within the parochial bounds. 

 In post-Reformation times the chapel was rebuilt probably 

 with money obtained by a "brief," and again within the 

 last forty years. It is now in excellent order and repair, 

 though darkened by obscured and stained glass windows. The 

 features calling for special notice are four in number, (i.) 

 The extremely curious and puzzling stone,*' formerly used as 

 the top of a window on the north side of the old chancel, 

 and now built into the inner face of the east end of the 

 north aisle. It bears in bas relief a horse with an armed 

 rider, a female figure, and above two birds ; the male figure 

 has been described as St. George, or as a knight riding to 

 the relief of a distressed lady, but the latter appears to be 

 militant, for her arms are a - kimbo. Characterised as 

 Norman work by some, it is ascribed by others to a much 

 earlier date, even to a period anterior to the introduction of 

 Christianity, (ii.) In the outside of the west wall of the church 

 there is built another curiously shaped stone, but without carving. 

 (iii.) Over the chief door in the south wall of the nave is a 



stonef bearing the following arms 



(iv.) Underneath the last mentioned is a wooden tablet with 

 the following M.I. to the Lawson family, who for a long period 

 owned the Hospitallers' lands in this township, and the lease- 

 hold estate of Gloster Hill, in the parish of Warkworth. 



Near this place | Lyeth the body Of Mr Ro | berl Lawson, 

 who died the 8th j day of August 1697. Of Mrs | Elizabeth 

 Lawson, the first wife | Of the said Robert, who died | 21 Febr. 

 1668. Of Mrs Catherine | Lawson, his second wife, who died | 

 27 November 1698. Of Jane Law- | son Daughter of Robert 

 and I Elizabeth, who died the 18th Janr. | 1663. Of Ralph 

 Lawson, second | son to Robert and Elizabeth | who died 4th 

 September 1693. | And of Lawson Armstrong, who | died 4th 

 Deer. 1802, aged 82 year. | 



The Township of Ulqham comprised twenty-four "ancient 

 farms," of which twenty-three belonged to the lord and one 



* This stone is figmred in the Proc. of the Soc. of Antiq. of 

 Newcastle, vol. v., p. 22. 



t The writer does not know whether the arnaorial stone and the tablet 

 occupied similar positions before the rebuilding of the chapel. 



