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William Bedet's grave slab
funerary | stonework
sandstone
brown
Sandstone grave slab possibly truncated, bearing an incised inscription between incised lines, preceded by a cross:
✠VILLEMVSBEDET
12th–13th cent
mediæval
Discovered S of Chancel September 1830, in the slype before 1888, moved to E side of cloister c1983, hence Peter Ryder's letter of 14/04/1987.
Removed from cloister to slype 29 October 1992. [Churchwardens Record HEXAB9535 p69]
2012: “It is proposed that seven gravestones of the canons of Hexham be mounted on the west wall of the new link cloister building between the Abbey and the Carnaby building. This gives acknowledgment to the lives of the Canons who, over a period of 400 years, built the Priory buildings largely as we know them today. Currently randomly scattered around the floors of the Abbey, these inscribed stones represent the most important group from any mediæval monastery in the north of England. These 10th to 12th-century grave markers are rare and impressive carvings.” [Hexham Abbey collection faculty document.pdf, §16]
H 1.44 | W 0.53 > 0.40 | D 0.15
on ground | W end of N wall
South Transept/Slype
CND: S4; Ryder 1995 item 8; Hodges 1888 Plate 35



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