Church of St Michael and All Angels, Felton

The nearest city, Newcastle upon Tyne, is 24 miles (39 km) and the Scottish border is about an hour's drive from Felton.

The church is located on a high wooded ridge to the west of the village on the Great North Road.

a year, to provide a chaplain to perform divine service every day for his soul, and for those of his heirs and ancestors.

[4] In 1759, Thomas Heron of East Thirston provided a sum of money to build a gallery, probably followed by the erection of the north aisle with sash windows.

The semi-round respond at the east end of the north nave arcade is similar to the jambs of the chancel arch, and possibly indicates the presence of a small transept or chapel.

A small vestry was added in the late 1860s when a gallery at the west end was removed; the church was newly seated, and new windows were inserted.

[4] The three windows on the south side of the chancel are lancets with widely splayed jambs on the interior, contracted by shoulders at the springing of the arch, which give to the latter a trefoil form.

A five-light window features geometrical tracery with an eight-petalled flower patterned central circle, remarkably cut from a single stone.

[6] This window was probably inserted in 1331/32, at the instance of Roger Mauduit when he was granted a licence to endow a chantry in the church.

[3] A porch to the south door seems to have been the first addition to the church, the outline of which can be easily traced, and it reached to the present aisle wall.

In the north wall is a portion of the effigy of a priest holding a chalice; it rests within an arched recess springing from moulded capitals and may also date from the 14th century.