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HEXAB3030
Photo of painting. Stepped glitter-gilt frame 304 × 212mm.
Canon Savage was the Rector when the quire and chancel were re-ordered and the nave rebuilt. Though still Rector he served overseas during the Great War, and later became Rector of St Bartholomew's in London, the great Romanesque church much used for mediæval interiors for films from Beckett to Wolf Hall.
The Revd Canon E S Savage MA Rector and Lecturer 1898–1919
Canon Savage was the driving force at the Abbey when the quire and chancel were re-ordered and the nave rebuilt. Though Rector throughout the Great War, he was frequently abroad serving with the YMCA in France and later on behalf of the Serbian Red Cross. His final, hurried departure from Hexham just after the Armistice was to take up an appointment as British Representative on a Serbian Government war reparations commission. He later became Rector of St Bartholomew's in London.
Photograph of [then] unlocated painting. HEXAB3030
The original painting was by Frank Ernest Beresford [1881–1967]; suspended by the white & blue ribbon is the Order of St Sava; below that is a two-sided Serbian Icon Cross.
PCC Min. 5/1/1971: “Portrait – Canon Savage – The Rector reported that a nephew of Mrs Beckingham had expressed his wish to have the portrait.”
pre-2015 in Parish Centre 1st floor west E wall.
Oct 2022: Confirmed that the original painted portrait is in the possession of Mrs Beckingham's nephew, who has kindly provided the colour photograph and a note from [Elfleda] Bride Savage [Mrs Beckingham's sister]: “Cross always worn by my father Canon E S Savage & given by Archbishop of Serbia for his work in that country during 1914–18 war.”