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

1120 Richard de Aurea Valle, prebendary of St.Paul's, Rector also of Whittingham, Rothbury and Corbridge

1200 Thomas, clericus

1223 William de Sallau

1247 Robert Maleter

1311 Roger de Stanhope

---- Gilbert de Burgham

1332 John de Penrith, the King's Chaplain

1345 Stephen de Dunelm

1352 John de Pulhore

1362 Sir Peter de Morland

1366 Sir Thomas Coledoue

1376 Henry de Atten

1394 John de Blyth

---- Henry Ellergyll, also Rector of Ingram

1495 John Bladesmyth

1501 John Curwin, M.A.

1533 John Williams, B.D.

1538 Cuthbert Hopyn

1572 Edmund Robinson, M.A.

1575 Thomas Handley

1579 Humphrey Skyemore, also Vicar of Felton

1598 John Ladyman

1610 John Warwick

1628 John Hesleyhead (ejected by Cromwell)

1648 to 1660 Archibald Moor

1660 John Hesleyhead (restored), buried under the Clerk's pew

1669 Matthew Bonner

1680 John Child

1681 Ralph Bell

1686 Robert Simpson, buried in the Chancel

1694 Nicholas Thomlinson

1696 Robert Davidson

1702 Thomas Smith

1710 William Ion, resisted the Pretender

1717 Wilfred Lawson

1732 Wilfred Lawson, his son

1778 John Law, D.D., later Archdeacon of Carlisle, Bishop of Clomfert, Killala and Elphin, of great variety and knowledge, uncommon genius and sincere religion

1782 Joseph Hudson, D.D. Prebendary of Carlisle

1811 William Goodenough, Archdeacon of Carlisle

1818 Edmund Goodenough, Headmaster of Westminster and Dean of Wells 1819 - 1828

1820 Thomas Cave Winscom, rebuilt the Vicarage, established a Sunday School, influenced his parishioners to build a National School, wrote a collection of hymns for the use of the Parish Church

1840 Henry Percy, M.A., Canon of Carlisle

1853 John Woodham Dunn, M.A.

1883 Richard Watson Dixon, D.D., Poet and Scholar, wrote the History of the CHurch of England (Reformation Period) in six volumes. Friend of Sir Robert Bridges and Sir Henry Newbolt, who were frequent visitors

1900 James Fairbrother

1925 Edward Arkless

1929 William Henry Anning, Hon. Canon of Newcastle, Rural Dean of Alnwick

1942 John Hubert Dickinson, Hon. Canon of Newcastle, Asst. Bishop of Melanesia 1931 - 1937

1959 William Barry Hicks, M.C., M.A., Hon. Canon of Newcastle, Rural Dean of Alnwick

1967 Benard Gurney Fox, M.A., Vicar of United Benefice of Warkworth and Acklington

1974 Stephen Scott Huxley, Vicar of United Benefice of Warkworth and Acklington

1979 Anthony Douglas Duncan, Vicar of United Benefice of Warkworth and Acklington

1987 Graham Anthony Newman, Vicar of United Benefice of Warkworth and Acklington

1995 Janet Mary Brearley, Vicar of United Benefice of Warkworth and Acklington, Hon. Canon of Newcastle, Area Dean of Alnwick

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