Research Notes

Parish Notes Northumberland

Haydon Old Church

[Population 1911: see Haydon Bridge St Cuthbert]

Church

An interesting building for the ecclesiologist with a possible early date of 1190 for the original structure. The evidence is the east end which has three stepped round headed lancet windows and the chancel of the original church, with a chantry added in the fourteenth century. A chapel in the south aisle, is all that remains, and the west end is part of a restoration by C.C. Hodges in 1882. The font is a Romas altar, probably obtained from a site on or near the Roman Wall.

The key for the old church can be obtained from Haydon Bridge Vicarage. [The Newcastle Diocesan Gazetteer (1982), page 48.]

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