Healey, Northumberland
Originally part of the barony of Baliol, Healey was given over to the Knights Templars in the 1260s (hence the area sometimes referred to as Temple Healey). With the suppression of the Templars the land passed to the monarch in 1308 and then shortly after to the Knight Hospitallars. At the dissolution the land returned to the monarch. By the early 1600s the area was held by the Sanderson family. In 1816 the land was sold to Robert Ormston of Newcastle. His son, also called Robert, took down the remains of the peel house and built Healey Hall.
A chapel of ease, St John’s, was built in 1860 to designs by Major C.E. Davis of Bath. The west tower was added in 1890.
The vicarage was built in 1877 from designs by Ewan Christian.
Governance
Healey is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.
References
- ^ Sykes, Alan (21 November 2011). "Tiny Tyne Valley church beats Canterbury cathedral and Gormley in arts competition". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^ "Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Tynedale". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 28 May 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ "THE HALL, Healey - 1252746 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ Bateson, Edward (1902). A history of Northumberland. pp. 169–176.
- ^ "CHURCH OF ST JOHN, Healey - 1303573 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "THE VICARAGE, Healey - 1155017 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
External links
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