Farnacres is a locality in

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The county is ...

, in north-east England.

Robert de Umfraville Sir Robert de Umfraville Order of the Garter, KG, Lord of Redesdale ( 1363 – 1437) was a knight in England in the Late Middle Ages, late-medieval England who took part in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War, particularly against Kingdo ...

in 1428 was granted a license to use his manor of Farnacres, for a

chantry chapel A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings: # a chantry service, a set of Church service, Christian liturgical celebrations for the dead (made up of the Requiem Mass and the Office of the Dead), or # a chantr ...

. The chapel, Umfraville charged, should be devoted to the souls of himself, his wife Isabella, Kings Henry IV and V, and to each past, present and future member of the

Order of the Garter The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British honours system, it is outranked in ...

. The chantry was dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist and was dissolved in 1548.

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