Europe, British Isles, North-East England, Northumberland, Glendale, Chillingham, St Peter's Church [Map]

St Peter's Church, Chillingham is in Chillingham [Map].

Before 1200. The present St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map] was built in the 12th Century. It was rebuilt in the 15th Century.

After 1443. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Alabaster effigies of Ralph Grey and Elizabeth Fitzhugh on sandstone base. Fluted Period. Lancastrian Esses Collar.

Ralph Grey: In 1406 he was born to Thomas Grey of Werke and Heaton and Alice Neville. On 10 Dec 1427 Ralph Grey and Elizabeth Fitzhugh were married. She the daughter of Henry Fitzhugh 3rd Baron Fitzhugh and Elizabeth Grey Baroness Fitzhugh. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. On 17 Mar 1442 Ralph Grey died.

Elizabeth Fitzhugh: she was born to Henry Fitzhugh 3rd Baron Fitzhugh and Elizabeth Grey Baroness Fitzhugh.

1691. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Memorial to Robert Charnocke Steward to Ford Grey 1st Earl Tankerville (age 35).

1717. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Tombstone to Daniel Batie died 1717. "My friends go home & cease from tears I Must lye hear til christ Apeares".

After 11 Jun 1905. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Memorial to Jacob Wilson.

Jacob Wilson: On 16 Nov 1836 he was born at Crackenthorpe Hall. In 1866 he was appointed land agent to Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville for his estates at Chillingham. In 1874 he and Margaret Hedley were married. On 11 Jul 1905 he died. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Chillingham. A memorial service was held at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

On 11 Jul 1905 Jacob Wilson died. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. A memorial service was held at St George's Church, Hanover Square.

1918. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Memorial to Samuel Sanderson of the Northumberland Fusiliers who was killed in the First World War. The note at the bottom reads ... Sam went to the Village School, just beyond the ford, and was just seventeen when he was killed. Sam's father, his brother and his nephew each served as Head Gardener to the Castle [Map], as Sam surely would have done had he lived. Sam and his parents lived in the Castle East Lodge, just by this Church as did Sam's nephew, *Alan, whose sister was born in the East Lodge. *Alan restored the Castle Garden from ruin and only retired in 2012, the last of a long line of Saunderson Gardeners, maybe dating back to the 1500s. One 1500s ledger reads: "Alexander the Gardener Holdeth one Cottage at three shillings per year." Alexander's son would have been Alexanderson. Sam, Rest in Peace.

1918. St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. Memorial to those who died in the First World War.

On 09 Jul 1931 George Montagu Bennet 7th Earl Tankerville (age 79) died at Chillingham Castle [Map]. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Chillingham [Map]. His son Charles Bennet 8th Earl of Tankerville (age 33) succeeded 8th Earl Tankerville, 9th Baron Ossulston of Ossulston in Middlesex.