Vicar: The Reverend Brian Hurst

Telephone: 01668 281468

emai: brian.hurst1@btopenworld.com

www.newcastle.anglican.org

Minister: The Reverend Jason Askew
Telephone : 01668 281 441

Sunday Services:

9.30am U.R.C Service (1stSundays)
9.30am The Parish Eucharist (2nd 4th and 5th Sundays)
9.30am Family Service – jointly organised by the CofE and the URC

Special services and other activities are published on the church notice board.
This ancient place of worship is a shared, under a sharing agreement, between the Church of England and the United Reformed Church.

Enquiries about Baptisms, Confirmation, Banns and Marriages should be made in the first instance to the Vicar

Location: the Village of Chatton lays 5miles east of Wooler on the B6348, the parish church is sign posted south from the village green.

The church is normally open during day light hours and visitors are most welcome.

History

The church building: The original church building at Chatton was granted to Alnwick Abbey between 1157-1184 by the Norman Baron of Alnwick William de Vesci. It is thought that the monks of Alnwick used to spend the summer months at Chatton. After the dissolution of the monasteries the patronage was vested in the Earldom of Percy. It is believed that the first church was destroyed in the thirteenth century, a second church on a site nearer to the river was subjected to flooding and burned down early in the eighteenth century – though the walls survived. The vicar, William Burrell, started restoration work, though the place is reported to have been in ruins for many years and possibly afflicted by another fire. Re-building started in earnest in 1770 in the early gothic revival style.

The Church organ – which is still in use each Sunday – is a rare piece by GM Holdich, formerly housed in Trinity College, Oxford, it is possibly one of the oldest organs in the county of Northumberland. At present an appeal for its restoration is in hand.