3-070-607 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Chapel in the Hermitage, Warkworth, 1881. 'On the rocky bank, surrounded by a thicket of shrubs and overshadowed by stately trees, here is the chapel, with the sacristy and the vestibule, all hewn out of the solid freestone rock, but the interior carved into pillared arches, groined roofs, doorways and windows of Gothic design, and with some monumental sculpture. The chapel is 18 ft. long, 7 ft. wide, and 7 ft. high; it has an altar, extending the width of the chapel, with two altar-steps; and it is lighted by a window of two compartments. On the sill of the window is a female figure, that of the Virgin, probably, with another figure, that of a man, kneeling at her feet. Parallel with the chapel is the sacristy, which is but 5 ft. in width. The vestibule communicated with another chamber, in which was a fireplace; but the Hermit's dwelling, with a garden attached to it, was on the top of the cliff above, and could be reached by a flight of steps cut in the rock from the chapel door. Such was the Hermitage of Warkworth in its perfect condition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.