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1810. The lead was stripped from the roofs and sold, and the roofs covered with Westmoreland slates. [Hexham Abbey, Monograph by Hodges, 1888, p.49.]
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| North Transept Roof |
| roof | furniture |
| wood |
| Wooden arch-braced roof with 15 roof bosses and 10 corbel heads |
| 13th cent |
| 19th- & 20th-century repairs |
| 1809. Faculty for new-roofing the Church. … the roof of the Nave or Body [actually N & S Transepts] of the Church … is covered with Lead … propose … to take off the Present Lead Covering and to cover it with Westmoreland Slate in the same manner as the roof over the Chancel of the said Church is now covered which was altered a few Years ago by Thomas Richard Beaumont Esquire and Diana Beaumont his Wife, the Owners or Impropriators of the great Tithes arising within the Parish of Hexham. Northumberland Record Office, Acc: NRO.3064. Ref: EP.184/80 Faculties. Faculty 16.8.1809. 1810. The lead was stripped from the roofs and sold, and the roofs covered with Westmoreland slates. [Hexham Abbey, Monograph by Hodges, 1888, p.49.] |
| North Transept/Roof |
| See also: www.hexhamabbey.org.uk |