Chillingham.

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Parish Church of St. Peter, Chillingham. Northumberland.

I found your Website very interseting, this really is a lovely part of the country and some of the photographs here really do it justice. Mick

Image: St Peters church, Chillingham.

Dirty days hath September
April June and November
From January up to May
The rain it raineth every day
All the rest have thirty-one
Without a blessed gleam of sun
And if any of them had two-and-thirty
They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty.

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Old headstone in the graveyard, Chillingham.

One headstone in the churchyard bears the following quaint inscription-
"Consider this as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I;
As I am now so must you be,
Prepare yourselves to follow me."

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church interior, St. Peter's Chillingham, Northumberland.

Image: the 15th century tomb of Sir Ralph Grey and his wife Elizabeth.

Tomb of Sir Ralph Grey and his wife Elizabeth.

The church was founded in the 12th century and retains some of the Norman stonework. The south Chapel of Our Lady contains the 15th century tomb of Sir Ralph Grey and his wife Elizabeth.

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View back up to the church as I was leaving, the day I visited was misty and raining with not a soul in sight,(living) very atmospheric, and as the leaflet I picked up in the church said it is a place of spiritual refreshment, light and peace to all who worship here, to all who pass this way and visit it.