Alnmouth / Alnemouth

The caption accompanying an image of this church from ca. 1786 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43269907@N07/4226350848/] [accessed 19 January 2010] reads: "Described here as "Alnemouth Church", this was the original church built on Church Hill. The site of this can be seen today by the large wooden cross placed across the water from Alnmouth village's beach. On Christmas Day in 1806, a great storm shifted the river from the other side of the Church (where it ran then) to the present side, effectively splitting the village and Church. The Church had already fallen into disrepair (already roofless in 1771) and the storm effectively demolished the structure." [NB: the source is actually from one of the volumes of Francis Grose's 'Antiquities of England and Wales' published between 1773 and 1810]. [NB: we have no information on the font from that church] Pevsner (1957) mentions that only the foundations of St. Waleric remain.