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Parish Notes Northumberland

Elsdon St Cuthbert

[Population 1911: 859]

Church

The church of St. Cuthbert is a cruciform edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, with vestry and hearse house on the north, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, both with very narrow western aisles, south porch and a western bell-cote with a pyramidal termination, containing one bell: the chancel has three sedilia under plain pointed arches and there are a number of ancient carved tomb slabs: the communion plate dates from 1618: the church was repaired in 1836, and thoroughly restored in 1877, at a cost of about £1,200, and has sittings for 230 persons. The register dates from the year 1672. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £630, net yearly value £577, including 60 acres of glebe, with residence (Elsdon castle), in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland K.G. and held since 1844 by the Rev. William Henry Bradley M.A. of Exeter College, Oxon. [Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890), page 761.]

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The Parish Chest

EP 83/8 Burials 1813-1900

Page	Name	Abode	Date	Age
38/299	Alexander, a highland Drover	Died at Elsdon	Nov 6 1827	about 45

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Monumental Inscriptions

Here lieth Thomas Wilson
Officer for the Duty on Salt
Whoe died march 16^th 1778 aged 51
Surely pale death could hardly
Find so good a man & friend so
Kind as the corpse that here
Doth lie in hopes his soul is
W... [rest eroded]

HERE LIES
JOHN DINNING, CLERK A.M.
OF
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD:
AND THE MUCH LOVED CURATE OF THIS PARISH
HE DIED AT OVERACRES
JULY 4. 1841
AGED 38 YEARS.
HUMBLY LOOKING FOR & PREACHING
PARDON, AND ETERNAL LIFE
THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST
AND HIM
CRUCIFIED.

HERE LIETH THE ...
OF THE REVEREND MR. WILLIA
M MITFORD: RECTOR DE ELSDO
N. WHO DEPARTED: THIS: LIFE THE
21 APRILL: 1713 OF HIS
AGE 68

HERE LYETH INTERRED THE
BODY OF M^R ROGEAR
READ WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 26 OF
FEBRUARY 1712 OF HIS
AGE 56
ALSO IOHN REED WHO
DIED 1726 AGED 34

Hear Lies the Body of
Isabell the Wife of Robert
Anderson of Birdhopecrage
Who died December 19 day
ged 68 years
1739

Here
Lyeth the
body of
Iohn Hedley of Kilhouse
died Dec y^e 16: 1744. Aged
83 years who left 40l
to Elsdon and Woodside
wards the Interest to be
pd Ye arly to the Poor
for Ever
Allso on his Right Side is Interred
the body of Elizabeth wife of
the said Iohn Hedley who died
at Headshop Ianuary the 27^th
1736 Aged 80 Years.

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