MONUMENT NO. 5446

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A 19th century vicarage, standing on the site of a pre-1415 vicar's pele. The pele tower is recorded in surveys of 1415 and 1541, the latter describing it as decayed. A new vicarage was built on the site between 1713 and 1736 and rebuilt in 1844. No trace of the medieval pele tower is now visible. The tower foundations are under the lawn of the East Longstone House.

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(NU 0568 2815) Peel (site of) (1)

The first known vicarage of Chatton was a pele tower, which is
mentioned in 1415 and again in 1541 when it is described as "the site of the vicar's house with an orchard and two other gardens within a wall". The same survey later mentions the vicarage as being in great decay and that it should be repaired as a defence for the town in time of war. Between 1713 and 1736 a new vicarage was built on part of the glebe, and in 1844 it was rebuilt on the same site (2)

A 19th century Vicarage is on the site and there are no traces of
antiquity. (3)

The site of the tower is under the lawn of East Longstone House. (4,5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1925

( 2a) Externally held archive reference

Alnwick Castle MSS A1, No 1g, pt 7

( 2) edited by Madeleine Hope Dodds 1935 A history of Northumberland, volume fourteen : the parishes of Alnham, Chatton, Chillingham, Eglingham, Ilderton, Ingram and Whittingham, the chapelries of Lowick and Doddington

A history of Northumberland15 vols (1893-1940) vol.14 Page(s)195, 207

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 02-DEC-55

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

Page(s)100

(5) 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)347

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