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St Cuthbert's Chapel (Tritlington and West Chevington)

[Marginal] Chapel at Causey Park. (1)

Cawsey Park formerly had a chapel within its precincts, but where it stood, or how, or for what purpose it was endowed is not known.
In 1240 la Chauce was holden by Joseph the Chaplain. The chapel of St Cuthbert, 'super le Cause' in II Henry VI is mentioned as in the advowson of Henry Percy of Athol, and his wife Elizabeth. Probably the chapel was built here, on account of the monks of Durham having rested here in their flight from that place with the body of Cuthbert to Holy Island in 1069. It was conveyed to the Ogles, probably at the time of the Reformation, for in 1542, Robert Lord Ogle held the manor of Cawsey Park. When it became the property of the Ogles and the chapel fell into disuse, it was annexed to the chapelry of Hebburn. (2)

Local enquiries revealed no knowledge of this chapel or any significant field names. (3)

It has been suggested that this chapel is the same as the "chapel or hermitage at Helm" (HER 11347). (4)
N11403
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Medieval (1066 to 1540)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; E Geary
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT, A1 in Northumberland 2017; Jacobs


Source of Reference
Local History of Tritlington and West Chevington

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