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Parish Notes Northumberland

Old Bewick Holy Trinity

[Population 1911: incl. with Eglingham]

Church

In 1107 Queen Maud gave the Manor of Old Bewick to Tynemouth Priory in memory of her father, slain at Alnwick and buried at Tynemouth. The Norman Arch of the sanctuary and windows date from that period. The fourteenth century effigy in the choir is said to have been much damaged by Lesley's troops in 1640. By eighteenth century it was almost a total ruin. Restored in 1867. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 107.]

Three brass plaques are dedicated to members of the Langlands family:

+ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN CHARLES LANGLANDS
BORN AT NEWCASTLE ON THE 27^TH DAY OF MARCH 1800
BECAME TENANT OF OLD BEWICK - MAY 1823
FELL ASLEEP ON THE 11^TH DAY OF MARCH 1874
"LORD I HAVE LOVED THE HABITATION OF THINE
HOUSE AND THE PLACE WHERE THINE HONOUR
DWELLETH" - PSALMS XXVI.8. -

+ THE CHANCEL AND ROSE WINDOWS, ARE DEDICATED
TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AND IN MEMORY OF MARY, WIFE
OF J.C. LANGLANDS, WHO DIED AUG: 30 1852 - AGED 47.
AND OF THEIR SON, CHARLES JOHN LANGLANDS, ENSIGN
43RD LIGHT INFANTRY, KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE
ASSAULT OF THE GATE PAH, TAURANGA, NEW ZEALAND
APRIL 29 1864 - AGED 21.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN SHAKESPEAR LANGLANDS,
MAJOR, 43^RD OXFORDSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY,
DIED 1895, AT LONGROOD, BILTON, WARWICKSHIRE, IN HIS 49^TH YEAR.
ALSO OF HIS SON ALAN LANGLANDS,
LIEUT. 1^ST BATT. SOUTH WALES BORDERERS,
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, MAY 9^TH 1915, IN HIS 20^TH YEAR.

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Monumental Inscriptions

IN UNFADING MEMORY OF
NORAH STUDD
THE GREATLY LOVED DAUGHTER OF
AUGUSTUS AND ALICE BURDON
WHO PASSED OVER JAN. 18^TH 1920
BURIED IN GLOUCESTERHIRE
"UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS"

TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF
AUGUSTUS EDWARD BURDON
OF HARTFORD HOUSE AND WOOPERTON
IN THIS COUNTY
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER FOR NORTHUMBERLAND
WHO FELL ASLEEP 29 DECEMBER 1908 AGED 57
Father in thy gracious keeping
Leave we nor Thy servant sleeping
ALSO OF ALICE GERTRUDE
BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED ON 5^TH NOV. 1946
AGED 92 YEARS, LAST SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
MAJOR THOMAS PAKENHAM VANDELUER OF BENFIELD Co. LIMERICK.

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