HEXAB5136.2
Saint Wilfrid at Hexham
book | publication
196 printed pages + 31 pages of plates B&W. Dust jacket in B&W, with photograph of St Wilfrid's crypt at Hexham Abbey
Chapters by various people on St Wilfrid etc. Loose inside a piece of paper containing 3 small photocopies of stones. Includes a photocopy of photo HEXAB9075.
Inside front cover: label with inscription. On flysheet: handwritten “In Memoriam” inscription.
Presented to commemorate the visit of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
1st July 1974
in celebration of the 1300th Anniversary
of the Founding of Hexham Abbey

Rector: Canon R Lemmon
Churchwardens: R Norton
P Mason
R Stroughair
D Barnes
G Johnson
In Memoriam
Mr Ralph Norton senior Churchwarden was
to have presented a similar copy of this
book ‘handsomely bound’ to
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
on the occasion of her visit to Hexham on Mon 1st July 1974
to mark the 1300 Anniversary of the founding of the Abbey.
Owing to delay in
publication, this was not possible.
It was later sent by post.

Tom Richardson
Assistant Priest, Feb 1970 – Aug 1975
Hexham Abbey
26th August 1975.
1975
(PCC 5/3/1974) “Publication of the book ‘St Wilfrid at Hexham’ had been delayed by the 3 day week.”
(PCC 4/3/1975 p195) “A report had been received from Mr Whitehouse [Headmaster of the Hexham Queen Elizabeth Grammar School & member of PCC] on the Presentation Book for the Queen. The cost of the special binding will be £25 + VAT. This was approved, as also was the suggested blue leather and Mr Whitehouse authorized to place the order.”
Reviewed by David Parsons in Archæologia Æliana Fifth series, Volume IV, 1976, p.191.
160 × 240
1974
xi+196+[31]
Oriel Press (Routledge, Kegan Paul)
Gateshead, Northumberland Press
Black binding
Dr D P Kirby
0-85362-155-1
In storage
HEXAB9031.2 ‘Hexham Abbey 1974 – Our Glorious Year’ pp10–11.



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