Echoes of Lives Down the Ages

The Journal › February 25, 2008

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Summary

EMBEDDED in the inside of the Norman tower of the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin at Ponteland is a small grave marker stone - all that remains of the earlier Saxon building.

Visitors enter the church through a tunnel-vaulted porch probably dating from the late 13th Century.

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Echoes of Lives Down the Ages

But around the corner in the tower is what was the main Norman doorway.

Th...

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