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St Peter's Craster Northumberland

Location

Heugh Wynd Craster Alnwick, NE66 3TL

The church was built as a Mission Church about 1878 to serve the inhabitants and the large number of fishermen who followed the herring shoals each summer around the coast.
The church contains Evett's last completed window - a memorial to Phyllis Carr-Ellison and Shaftoe Craster.
The window is of hand-blown glass from the Sunderland firm, Hartley Woods. The leading and installation was done by Traditional Stained Glass, a company newly set-up by the craftsmen who usually did this part of the work for Evetts.
The window to the left depicts terns in flight; the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; symbols of a fish and the cross; a rock (whinstone of the locality), cobles (boats) and an eider drake.
The window to the right depicts terns in flight; the Craster Raven; primroses and cowslips; the Northern Cross; the torch of St Aidan; squills (local blue flowers); cobles and fish in the sea.
The church is not generally open but a key is available from the nearby art gallery.

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