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Sedilia – five seats to south of High Altar
sedilia | furniture
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Fragments of C15 set into range of 5 seats – each with canopy & separated by open work sides with colonettes, front ones rising to support angels. Four surviving canopy bosses with roses between faces. Seats vary in width from 620 to 720 mm. One of the angel figures (between bays 3 & 4 from the west) has a shield with the arms of Prior Woodhorn 1409–1428. [Hadcock 1935 plan no.16]
early 15th cent
with rehashed 1910 work
1823: ‘Near the altar on the south side is one beautiful gallery of carved oak. Beneath it are “three stalls (and two others have been cut away) highly ornamented with tabernacle work, and to which the bishop and his attendants retired during the elevation of the host, as is the practice in the great churches of the continent.” (Beau. Eng. and Wales, vol. xii. p. 164.)’ [Wright, pp77–8]
‘The sedilia, now placed in the vestry, [wherever that was in 1886] consist of four stalls of oak, with high canopies and ornamental divisions. On one of these is an angel holding a shield charged with a hunting horn between three ‘W’s, supposed to allude to Prior Woodhorn, 1409–1427. A piece of cresting bearing the same shield, alternated with one charged with an eagle, was brought from screen adjoining the sedilia, and the whole may have been Woodhorn's work. [Bulmer, History & Directory of Northumberland, 1886]
‘Beneath the eastern arch on the south side of the choir stood the sedilia. Four of the stalls now remain, and are preserved in the vestry. They are clearly incomplete, and Mr Hodgson says: “On the south side of the altar are three stalls, and two others have been cut away.” Carter's plan shews five stalls, and so confirms this statement. The sedilia are shewn on Plate 44 in their present condition.’ [Hodges 1888, p.46]
1908. ‘At the Restored Sedilia. The Reverend P. B. Barker, M.A., shall say: “Most Reverend Father in God. To the glory of God and in affectionate remembrance of Henry Christopher Barker, M.A., formerly Rector of Hexham and Lecturer, and Emily Margaret, his wife, these Sedilia were restored by their children.” …’ [Booklet: Memento of Hexham Abbey on the Occasion of the Consecration & Dedication Festival, Saturday, August 8th, 1908, p.18]
approx. | H 2120 | W 3560 | D 470
on ground
Chancel/Presbytery
1907, 21 November. … 9. Restoration of the Ancient Sedilia and repairing the same and refixing of the same in the re-arranged choir. North'ld Record Office. Faculty reg. no.1; Faculty no.316, 21.11.1907. NRO EP.184/80. [Hex. Parish Mag. Dec.1907, p.91.]



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