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Stannington, Northumberland – St Mary the Virgin

An interesting drive to Stannington on Saturday 1 October 2010. We went the pretty way (so pretty I had to get the map out less than five miles from home). I’ve been to the Ridley Arms, and to see Colin the (soon-toretire) Vicar, but never been in the church before. It is a church with a proper car park at NZ210794, and they have a website [this has changed from when I visited, but hasn’t been updated for a year] – which tells me they call their Sunday School “Sin Busters”. I’m not sure what to say about that. They found a Saxon gravestone, which...

October 1, 2010

Whitley Chapel, Northumberland – St Helen

I was a Suffolk Vicar, enjoyed the website Simon’s Suffolk Churches – and my old boss, Neil Collings (the Dean of St Edmundsbury), managed to visit all the churches in Suffolk before his untimely death earlier this year – may he rest in peace. Now I’m a Northumberland Vicar I thought I’d try and do all the churches in Northumberland. I was going to start a website, but my wife – northernreader – suggested a blog would be easier. So, here goes. One of the Diocesan committees I sit on had “Whitley Chapel” on the agenda. “Where’s that?” I asked. “South of Hexham” they...

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Stannington, Northumberland – St Mary the Virgin

Whitley Chapel, Northumberland – St Helen