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Parish Notes Northumberland

Ancroft St Anne

[Population 1911: 728]

Church

The church of St. Anne, supposed to have been erected about the year 1090, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and a western tower with small flat-topped pinnacles at the angles, and a bell-cote on the roof containing 2 bells, one of which was taken from a Wesleyan chapel in London, when it was demolished: the tower was originally built as a pele tower: the church was restored in 1870, when the nave was lengthened, the chancel rebuilt, and a vestry added at the north-west angle: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1743. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £261, net yearly value £340, including 85 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Rev. Edward Thornton M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. [Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham (1890), page 716.]

A brass plate above the door reads:

This ancient Pele Tower was restored A.D. 1884
in loving memory of
Robert Crossman of Cheswick
who passed to his rest in GOD
July 19th 1883 aged 80 years.

A brass plate reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE REVD. EDWARD THORNTON M.A. CANTAB.
VICAR OF THIS PARISH 1855-1902
WHO DIED MAY 22nd 1916 AGED 66 YEARS
AND LILA HIS WIFE
WHO DIED JAN. 25th 1916 AGED 67 YEARS

A brass plate behind the pulpit reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THIS PULPIT IS ERECTED
IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF
Cyril de Muschamp
DIED OCT. 19th 1893
AGED 8 YEARS
ALSO
Edward Basil
DROWNED AT ANCROFT AUG. 29th 1894
AGED 16 YEARS
SONS OF
Edward and Lila Thornton,
ANCROFT VICARAGE

A stained glass window in the nave has the dedication:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY
CLAUDE FEATHERSTON THIRD SON OF EDWARD THORNTON M.A.
WHO DIED IN NEWCASTLE DECr 29th 1881 AGED 2 YEARS

Another stained glass window has the dedication:

TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY OF GOD
ERECTED BY MARY ELIZABETH & DOROTHY BELL LEACH IN MEMORY OF
THEIR BELOVED SISTER DEBORAH 2nd DAUGHTER OF THE REV. JOHN LEACH AND
DOROTHY HIS WIFE ALSO OF THEIR STEPSISTER & BROTHER MARGARET AND EDMUND WILLS

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The Parish Chest

EP 17/5 Burials 1813-1863

Page	Name	Abode	Date	Age
20/160	Name unknown	A ship wrecked sailor found cast up by the tide on the sea shore near Scremerston Mill	21st February 1823	Appeared to be about 13 years of age
27/216	Name unknown	A ship wrecked sailor found on the sea shore nigh Scrammerston Mill	11th March 1827	not known
40/315	A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm lost at Spittal	Found at Scramerston	November 10th 1834	19 years
40/316	A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm	Found at Scramerston	November 11th 1834	40 years
40/318	A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm	Found at Cheswick	November 17th 1834	25 years
40/319	A ship-wrecked seaman from the ship Christiana of Stockholm	Found at Goswick Parish of Holy Island	November 18th 1834	20 years
48/377	A ship-wrecked sailor Name not known	found on Scremerston Beach	26th March 1838	about 16 years

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