Hexham Abbey is a Grade I listed church dedicated to St Andrew, in the town of Hexham, Northumberland, in the North East of England. Originally built...
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the Modern English "home" (and the Scots and Northern English "hame"). Hexham Abbey originated as a monastery founded by Wilfrid in 674. The crypt of the...
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Acca of Hexham (c. 660 – 740/742) was an early medieval Northumbrian prelate, serving as bishop of Hexham from 709 until 732, and subsequently commemorated...
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areas in England. He was rector and lecturer at Hexham Abbey for ten years from 2004 to 2014. Hexham Abbey is a large parish church that can be described...
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Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (category Burials at Hexham Abbey)
House, and beheaded shortly afterwards that same day. He was buried at Hexham Abbey. Parliament annulled the act restoring him to his dignities, which again...
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Rosella and Elflida). Savage was the Rector of Hexham from 1898 to 1919, during which time he oversaw the abbey's rebuilding. After serving with 21 ships during...
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7th Earl of Grantham Laura Carmichael as Edith Pelham, Marchioness of Hexham Jim Carter as Charles Carson Raquel Cassidy as Phyllis Baxter Paul Copley...
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charge of a large, rural parish in Northumbria (2006–2015), and Rector of Hexham Abbey (2015–2019). Winter was born in 1965 and is of British and Swiss-German...
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example from early medieval stonework is the Anglo-Saxon frithstool at Hexham Abbey. The symbol has been interpreted as representing the Holy Trinity, especially...
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of his life Eata occupied Hexham. Eata died of dysentery at Hexham in 686, and was buried in the Benedictine Abbey of Hexham. Like most of the early saints...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era is a 2022 historical drama film directed by Simon Curtis from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes. It is the sequel to Downton Abbey (2019)...
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adult training excavations at Corbridge in the 1960s and 1970s. Work on Hexham Abbey in Northumberland in 1881 brought to light a Roman funerary monument...
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Downton Abbey is a 2019 historical drama film directed by Michael Engler from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes, based on the television series of the same...
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Wilfrid is supposed to have had the church built at the same time as Hexham Abbey. It has been altered several times since, with a Norman doorway, and...
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eventual husband Bertie Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham, is played by Harry Hadden-Paton. Downton Abbey's senior household staff are portrayed by Jim Carter...
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army moved east, ravaging the countryside as they went. They sacked Hexham Abbey, taking three days to do so, then advanced to Durham. They arrived outside...
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Coquet Island Cragside Dunstanburgh Castle Farne Islands Hadrian's Wall Hexham Abbey Kielder Water Lindisfarne North Pennines AONB Northumberland National...
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write the Vita by Acca of Hexham, one of Wilfrid's followers, who later became a bishop and succeeded Wilfrid in the See of Hexham. Although Stephen likely...
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This is a list of characters from Downton Abbey, a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films...
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frith. The most famous surviving examples are in Beverley Minster and Hexham Abbey. That in Beverley has the inscription Haec sedes lapidea Freedstoll dicitur...
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Ælfwald I of Northumbria (category Burials at Hexham Abbey)
at Chesters, by ealdorman Sicga on 23 September 788. He was buried at Hexham Abbey where he was considered a saint. Ælfwald was succeeded by his first cousin...
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Alcmund of Hexham (died 7 September 780 or 781) became the 7th bishop of the see of Hexham in Northumberland when he was consecrated on 24 April 767;...
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Marcus Wibberley (category Choristers at Westminster Abbey)
Records "Dulwich College Chapel Choir". 4 May 2023. "Hexham Abbey Festival of Music and Arts". "Hexham Courant". "SLS". "St George's Chamber Orchestra"....
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television roles as Herbert "Bertie" Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham, in the television series Downton Abbey and Martin Charteris in The Crown. Hadden-Paton played...
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Wilfrid (category Bishops of Hexham)
a nunnery, on her retirement to Ely Abbey. Æthelthryth had donated the lands Wilfrid used to found Hexham Abbey, and the historian N. J. Higham argues...
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The Bishop of Hexham was an episcopal title which took its name after the market town of Hexham in Northumberland, England. The title was first used by...
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to have been anticipated. Two houses, Norton Priory in Cheshire and Hexham Abbey in Northumberland, attempted to resist the commissioners by force, actions...
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a Roman fort, with reused materials) Ripon Cathedral crypt (c. 670) Hexham Abbey crypt (674) Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, Northumberland (c. 675) Escomb...
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the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns...
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Jones, in turn, left £1 million split between St Paul's Cathedral, Hexham Abbey and Durham Cathedral, and another £1 million to the National Trust. Larkin...
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