MONUMENT NO. 1613

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A pele tower was used as a vicarage at Alwinton, and in 1541 was described in poor repair. In 1635 it was recorded that the vicar had lost the `old pele tower rectory house'.

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Bastle (Priest's) at Alwinton. (1)

Described in the Survey of 1541 as a little bastle house, the mansion of the vicar. (Not listed in the Survey of 1415 pp 12-20). (2)

John Hearon, mentioned 1628, took possession of the vicars bastle mansion and let it as an alehouse, so that the vicar was obliged to build himself a small cottage to live in. (3)

The Revd W Renwick, Vicar of Alwinton, has heard references to the Priests Bastle, but has no information as to where it may have stood. The present vicarage was builty a 100 years ago when the church was greatly rebuilt and maybe it was built on the foundations of the Bastle. No traces of an older building could be seen in or around the present structure. The house built by the vicar on his expulsion from the Bastle (Authority 3 refers) was indicated to the Investigator by the vicar and stands near the church. (4)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (5,6)

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( 1) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

16, 1939 Page(s)172

( 2) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

14, 1891 Page(s)44

( 3) General reference

"Upper Coquetdale" 1903 225-6 (DD Dixon)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 07-MAY-57

(5) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)183-4

(6) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)345

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