The Church of St Michael in Alnham, in the English county of Northumberland, is a medieval structure dating from circa 1200.

The Parish of Alnham is situated in the northwest of Northumberland, and the small village lies within 8 miles (13 km) of the Scottish border.

[1] The Oliverian Survey of Church Livings, 1650, says:— "That the Parish of Alneham was formerly a Viccaridge, the Earle of Northumberland Patron thereof, Mr. Thompson Viccar, and the value of the said Viccaridge worth twenty pounds p'annu," while the Rentals and Rates of 1663 show that the neighbouring landowners then held the rectorial tithes.

The church stands on the site of a small Roman camp, "which most probably has been for a Centurion's guard to protect the herds of cattle when grazing during summer, in the rich pastures on the banks of the river Aln, above Whittingham.

[4] While the walls are indicative of the period in which it was erected, very few records are available regarding the church's early history and its pre-Reformation rectors.

It is part of a formal document written in 1597, by Henry, the ninth Earl of Northumberland, to Thomas Percy.

For many years this Thomas Percy, one of the leaders in the Gunpowder Plot, was constable of Alnwick Castle, and auditor and commissioner to the Earl.

[2] Notice of Alnham Church is found in Tate's 1866 The History of the borough, Barony and Castle of Alnwick, Vol.

The rest of the window openings had been modernised and filled with common sashes, which were rotten, letting in wind and rain.

Three of the pews were square, with a table fixed in the centre of each; a fourth formed three sides of a quadrangle that was occupied by a stove.

[8][9] The communion plate consists of four pieces, a cup, a paten, a small, straight-sided flagon, and a brass alms dish.