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Latitude: 55.1183 / 55°7'5"N
Longitude: -1.8863 / 1°53'10"W
OS Eastings: 407349
OS Northings: 580440
OS Grid: NZ073804
Mapcode National: GBR H988.F1
Mapcode Global: WHC2V.0M13
Plus Code: 9C7W4497+8F
Entry Name: Tomb of Katherine Babington, Wall and Statues Approx 20 Yds West of Harnham Hall
Listing Date: 22 August 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1304022
English Heritage Legacy ID: 238548
ID on this website: 101304022
Location: Harnham, Northumberland, NE20
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Belsay
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Bolam St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Statue
BELSAY HARNHAM
NZ 08 SE
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Tomb of Katherine
Babington, wall and
statues approx 20 yds
west of Harnham Hall
GV ll
Tomb with garden walls and statuary. The tomb is 1670, the walls probably of
similar date, the statues C18. The walls are partly random rubble and partly
bedrock. The tomb, set in the wall has random rubble facade with ashlar door
surround; its interior is cut from the solid rock. Statues sandstone.
Wall, approx 40 yds long and approx 15 fthigh with flat coping and, set on top,
three Janus-headed busts.
To left the tomb. The doorway has continuous chamfered surround with rounded
shoulders. Interior is tunnel-vaulted and has 2 inscriptions; one, in stone,
reads
Here lyeth the Body of Madame Babington
Who was laid in this Sepulchre the 9th of
September 1670
My time is past as you may see
I viewed the dead as you do me
One day you'll lie as low as I
And some will look on thee.
the other, painted on wood, looks later but is recorded in the early C19.
In hopes of future bliss contented here I lie
Though I would have been pleased to live, yet was not
displeased to die .....
Katherine Babington was a dissenter who is said to have arranged to have the
vicar of Bolam pulled from his pulpit, an act for which she was excommunicated
and denied churchyard burial.
Mackenzie: History of Northumberland, 1825.
Hodgson: History of Northumberland Vol I, Part 2.
Listing NGR: NZ0734980440
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