Tweedmouth [disappeared?]

INFORMATION

FontID: 15841TWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located near Berwick-upon-Tweed, now part of its suburbs
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Haig (1825) reproduces in an appendix the contents of 'A record of the rentals of the Monastery of Kelso" [undated], in which it is noted: "They [the monks at Kelso] had at Tweedmouth a church with a font". The Parish website [http://tweedmouthparishchurch.blogspot.com/] [accessed 14 January 2010] notes: "The first written reference to our Church is in a confirmatory papal document dated 1145 concerning "the Church of Bosilius at Tweedmouth […] Much later, in the time if the Stuarts, the dedication name seems to have dropped out of use and our Church is refered to as "Tweedmouth Chapel" being of the four Chapelries owing tithe to Holy Island since Norman times. The others were: Ancroft, Lowick and Kyloe. In the early years of Queen Victoria, old things were revived and Tweedmouth Church became known as St. Bartholomew." Wilson (1870) writes that Tweedmouth church "was one of the Norman edifices built by the monks of Holy Island" but had fallen in disrepair by 1726, and was replaced by a new building in 1780; in the latter building, adds Wilson (ibid.), "the font was in a pew at the west end". [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of either font]

REFERENCES

"Great Yarmouth and its Parish Church", August 1, 1907, The Musical Times, 1907, pp. 509-519; p. 35
Haig, James, A topographical and historical account of the town of Kelso, and of the town and castle at Roxburgh […], Edinburgh and London: Printed for John Fairbairn […] and James Duncan […], 1825