medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John B. Dillon wrote:
>
> In Acca's honor, herewith some visuals, etc. of Hexham's present
> parish church of St. Andrew (also called "Hexham Abbey [church]"),
> built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by Augustinian Canons
> over the remains of Wilfrid's and Acca's Anglo-Saxon stone church
> (whose crypt and other underworkings survive beneath the present
> structure). The nave is Edwardian [1907-08], replacing one destroyed
> by a Scots raiding party in 1296, and there have been some other bits
> added/restored. But the remainder is still pretty much the same
> building as that in which what are said to have been Acca's remains
> were ceremoniously reinterred by the canons next to the high altar.
>
The medieval church was, as John implies, that of an Augustinian Priory
rather than an Abbey.
John Briggs
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