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Site of St Mary’s Church Mr Fairless 7 1/2 Chains N.W It was anciently the Parish
St Marys Church Site of of the Temperance Church and was erected by St
St Mary’s Church Revd Mr Singleton Hotel Wilfred about the year 678
(Site) and dedicated to St Mary
St Mary’s Church Richard Gibson Esqr It was built almost like a
Site round Tower, having four
St Mary’s Church Whites Directory porticoes looking to different
Site quarters. Fragments of this
St Mary’s Church Wrights History of Hexham building can yet be seen
Site in walls of the house that
"The ancient Parish Church was built by Wilfred about the is built on its Site, it was
year 678 and dedicated to the memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, fragments supposed to extend from to the Market
of the ancient Building still remain in the Walls of Houses in or near St Place to the Meat Market &
Mary’s Chare" Wrights Histy of Hexham from Fore Street to the abbey
Walls-the supposed extent is
"In addition to the Conventual buildings there were then dotted in in Red on Trace
in Hexham as Wallis tells us two parish Churches-They
were named St Mary’s & St Peters" See Miscellaneous tracts relating
to antiquity-All traces of St Peter’s church are lost
nor can do any of the inhabitants know any thing of the Site
HT c/a
M Costelloe
c.a.

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