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HEXAB1123.19 has the initials ‘ADGM’ [= Ad Deo Gloriam Majorem – To the Greater Glory of God] and indicates the site of re-burials.
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| Incised/leaded Initials North Transept & Crossing |
| monogram | memorial |
| stone |
| Initials incised, and sometimes also leaded, in the floor and walls, often in pairs about 6–7 feet apart, possibly indicating the two ends of a grave under the floor. HEXAB1123.19 has the initials ‘ADGM’ [= Ad Deo Gloriam Majorem – To the Greater Glory of God] and indicates the site of re-burials. |
| c1700? |
| It was agreed “by the Minister and fower-and-twenty att a publick meeting upon the 13th of March, 1699, that a proper account should be taken, and entered in the registers of all the burying places within the church.” To this date we may therefore assign the initials cut on the walls of the aisles and on the pillars, and in some cases leaded into the floor, as marking the spaces allotted to different families. [Hexham Abbey, Hodges, 1888, p.49.] |
| North Transept |