2009

NZ4229 : Former Chapel-of-Ease, Embleton

taken 16 years ago, 3 km from Wynyard Village, Stockton-on-Tees, England

Former Chapel-of-Ease, Embleton
Former Chapel-of-Ease, Embleton
Taken from the same spot as Bob's 1990 photo NZ4229 : Embleton Church, County Durham. In the intervening years the roof has partially collapsed and the graveyard has become overgrown with many of the stones fallen.
Embleton Chapel-of-Ease

"Embleton Township comprises an area of 3356 acres, and its ratable value is £1841...

"The hamlet of Embleton is situated four miles east by south of Sedgefield, and contains a chapel-of-ease, in which the curates of the mother-church officiate on Sundays. It was anciently called Elmdene, a name supposed to be derived from an elm wood which formerly flourished in the neighbouring dene.

"Church History

"The present chapel-of-ease here occupies the site of an early chapel which. like the mother-church, was dedicated to the Virgin, for we find that 'Alice de Emedon, daughter and heir of John del Chambre, formerly a burgess of Newcastle, directed her body to be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Mary of Emedon.' The present chapel is a small plain stone edifice, built in 1860, when the old one was pulled down."

[From History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan , London, 1894]

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Category: Chapel (ruined)
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NZ4229, 19 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Mick Garratt   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 421 298 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:39.7025N 1:20.8582W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NZ 422 298
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West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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