A Short History Church Interior Church Outside The Hermitage The School Coquet Island The Vicarage The Vicars

The original Vicarage is an imposing Georgian residence ideally placed between the church and the river. The building probably dates from the early part of the eighteenth century. It was substantially rebuilt by Vicar Winscom in 1820. Many distinguished clergy have lived within its walls, probably the most famous being Richard Watson Dixon, poet and scholar. Many of his poems will have written here in the large, draughty study looking out on to the Coquet. Bridges recalled: 'There I visited him many times and have spent too many days that the dilapidated armchair under Severn's little drawing of Keats by the study fire seemed to belong to me.' Today the former vicarage is an Abbeyfield Society home.