Everything about Hexham Abbey totally explained
Hexham Abbey is a place of
Christian worship in the town of
Hexham,
Northumberland, in north-east
England.
There has been a
church on the site for over 1300 years since
Etheldreda, Queen of Northumbria made a grant of lands to
Wilfrid,
Bishop of York c.
674. Of Wilfrid's
Benedictine abbey, which was constructed almost entirely of material salvaged from nearby Roman ruins, the
Saxon crypt and apse still remain. For a little while around that time it was the
seat of a
bishopric.
In Norman times, Wilfrid's abbey was replaced by an
Augustinian priory. The current church largely dates from that period (c.1170–1250), in the
Early English style of
architecture. The choir, north and south transepts and the cloisters, where canons studied and meditated, date from this period.
The east end was rebuilt in
1860. The Abbey was largely rebuilt during the incumbency of
Canon Edwin Sidney Savage who came to Hexham in
1898 and remained until
1919. This mammoth project involved re-building the nave, whose walls incorporate some of the earlier church and the restoration of the choir. The nave was reconsecrated on
August 8 1908.
In
1996 an additional chapel was created at the east end of the north choir aisle. Named
St Wilfrid's Chapel, it offers a place for prayer or quiet reflection.
Since the
Dissolution of the Monasteries in
1537, the Abbey has been the parish church of Hexham.
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