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Parish Notes Northumberland

Wall St George

[Population 1911: incl. with Heavenfield]

Church

Small rectangular church built by Hicks and Charlewood. Prior to being built, the parishioners attended services at the parish church of St Oswald in Lee about 1½ miles away on the B6318. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 32.]

Stained window in the chancel is dedicated:

We bless Thy Holy Name O Lord for all Thy
servants departed this Life in Thy faith and fear
and who sleep the sleep of peace, especially
George Marmaduke Darley Waddilove,
Major in the Bengal Army, who entered into rest
March the vi^th mdccclxxxvii, in affectionate
remembrance of whom his widow and son here
dedicate this window in honour of Christ Crucified.

A brass plate on the organ reads:

THIS ORGAN IS ERECTED TO THE
AFFECTIONATE MEMORY OF
GEORGE HOPE WADDILOVE
BY HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS
AND WAS DEDICATED TO THE
SERVICE OF GOD 27TH MARCH 1936.

A small brass plate behind the altar table reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
THOMAS I. CLARK
DIED 1.4.82

A small brass plate on a table reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN A. SEABY
CHURCHWARDEN
1940 - 1980

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History

A small metal plate fastened to the railings around the war memorial on the village green records:

THIS VILLAGE WAS A FINALIST IN THE BEST
KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION FOR FOUR YEARS
AND WAS SPECIALLY COMMENDED BY THE
JUDGES FOR ITS WELL-KEPT APPEARANCE
AND THE EVIDENCE OF COMMUNAL EFFORT.

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Monumental Inscriptions

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
JAMES HERDMAN
38 YEARS CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH
AND BULDER OF THIS CHURCH.
BORN NOV. 18 1827. DIED MAR. 2 1907

He rests from his labours.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE REV. WILLIAM WOOLLETT LONDON,
VICAR OF THIS PARISH, 1902-1924,
ENTERED INTO REST AT HAYDON BRIDGE,
8 JANUARY 1934,
THE TRIBUTE OF HIS WIDOW

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