Former church, Allenheads
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Former church, Allenheads
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 5 Apr 2018
The building, which replaced an earlier church of 1701, was built in the mid-1820s and was the family chapel of the Beaumonts, Northumberland landowners. The Beaumont-Blackett family owned one of the two main mining companies that operated in Weardale, Alston Moor and Allendale (the other was the London Lead Company) http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/durham_miner/weardale_lead_mining.pdf . It is now a private house. The building is Grade II listed https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1042964 .
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54.804437
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-2.222429