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Parish Notes Northumberland

Wark St Michael

[Population 1911: 665]

Church

The church, erected in 1814-18, at the cost of the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, at a cost, including the rectory house, of £7,410, is a plain edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of quasi-chancel, nave and an embattled western tower containing one bell: it was reseated with open benches, re-decorated throughout, and a new oak pulpit and lectern introduced in 1883-4, at a cost of £550, raised by subscription; the chancel was restored, and a stained east window and reredos erected at the same time, at the expense of Mrs. Taylor, of Chipchase Castle; the stone font, a memorial to the Rev. Hugh Taylor M.A. some time curate in charge here, who died April 9th, 1883, was presented by Miss Taylor of Humshaugh; in the vestry is a Sunday School library of 200 volumes; there are 180 sittings, all free. The register dates from the year 1818. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £280, net yearly value £270, including 9 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lords of the Admiralty, and held since 1888 by the Rev. William Edmund Smith B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Durham and Northumberland Directory (1890), p.1065.]

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Monumental Inscriptions

IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS CUMMING:
Teacher. who died at Wark on
the 4th: day of April 1841.
Aged 30 Years.

No - shed not a tear upon Cumming's Tomb
The moment for sorrow is o'er;
Pale Poverty's cloud, or in gratitude's gloom:
Can darken the spirit no more:

But over that Tomb let proud triumph arise.
And peal th ehigh anthem with joy to the skies:
For he lived mid corruption yet cloudless his name
For he died without wealth save the wealth of his fame.

IN MEMORY OF
William Armstrong, Surgeon
Wark, who died March 5^th 1864
Aged 68 Years.
This memorial was erected by his friends, to
attest the high esteem he so deservedly merited.

IN
MEMORY OF
THE
REV. GEORGE PEACOCK BLUNDELL
WHO DIED JULY 26^TH, 1871,
AGED 70.

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