| HEXAB1290 |
| Missing Cresswell Gravestone |
| ledger | memorial |
| In the nave or cross isle [transepts] on several grave stones: |
| Here lyeth the body of James Criswell |
| who departed |
| this life the 6th day |
| of March, ano dom. 1654 |
| Here lyeth interred the body of |
| John Creswel, tanner, who departed |
| this life the 25th of Aug. |
| ano dom. 1655 |
| Here lyeth interred the body of James Criswell, |
| tanner, who was buried the 13th of December, |
| ano dom. 1675 |
|
| 1654–1675 |
From Hexham Register: 1654/55 7 Mar James Cresswell buried in the Church; 1655 27 Aug John Creswell buried in the church; 1675 14 Nov James Cresswell, tanner, buried in the church.
1823: “1675. James Cresswell, tanner, gave an acre of land, on Hexham Haugh, called Reah's Acre, the yearly rent thereof, 40s., to be distributed to the poor of Hexham town on the 3d of October, being his birth-day.” [A B Wright p.232] |
| Documented in past, now lost. |
| Unknown |
| Warburton MS in PSAN Vol.8 1898 No.18 p148 |