WALL, a chapelry in the parish of ST-JOHN-LEE, southern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Hexham, containing 465 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of T. R. Beaumont, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Oswald, was erected by the monks of Hexham, upon the spot where, King Oswald, who was afterwards canonized, raised the standard of the cross, and defeated the Britons under Cadwalla. A silver coin of the former was found when the chapel underwent repair, and a mutilated Roman altar lies in the cemetery; adjoining which Is a field, where human skulls and fragments of military weapons have been often turned up by the plough.