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The Hexham Royal Hotel |
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Rooms From: £ 41.5
Priestpopple, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 1PQ
The Royal Hotel, an elegant Grade II listed building with its unique gold dome, is a place of welcome to travellers. Situated in the heart of the thriving town of Hexham, the hotel dominates the street of Priestpopple.
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Best Western The Beaumont Hotel |
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Rooms From: £ 75
Beaumont Street, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 3LT
3 Star family run hotel overlooking 7th century Abbey and it`s grounds with excellent restaurant and bars.
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Swallow George Hotel |
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Rooms From: £ 66
Chollerford, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 4EW
The George Hotel, dating back to the 17th Century, is set on the banks of the River North Tyne. The hotel provides a relaxing rural retreat for a leisure break.
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In 671, on a bluff above the Tyne, four miles west of Corbridge, St Wilfrid founded a Benedictine monastery whose church was, according to contemporary accounts, the finest to be seen north of the Alps. Unfortunately, its gold and silver proved irresistible to the Vikings, who savaged the place in 876, but the church was rebuilt in the eleventh century as part of an Augustinian priory, and the town of HEXHAM , governed by the Archbishop of York, grew up in its shadow.
The stately exterior of Hexham Abbey (daily: May-Sept 9am-7pm; Oct-April 9am-5pm; free) still dominates the west side of the Market Place. Entry is through the south transept, where there's an impressive first-century tombstone honouring Flavinus, a standard-bearer in the Roman cavalry, who's shown riding down his bearded enemy. The memorial lies at the foot of the broad, well-worn steps of the canons' night stair , one of the few such staircases - providing access from the monastery to the church - to have survived the Dissolution. Beyond, most of the high-arched nave dates from an Edwardian restoration and it's here that you gain access to the crypt , a Saxon structure made out of old Roman stones, where pilgrims once viewed the abbey's reliquaries. At the end of the nave is the sixteenth-century rood screen , whose complex tracery envelops the portraits of local bishops. Behind the screen, the chancel displays the inconsequential-looking frith stool , an eighth-century stone chair that was once believed to have been used by St Wilfrid. Nearby, close to the high altar, there are four panels from a fifteenth-century Dance of Death , a grim, darkly varnished painting.
The rest of Hexham's large and irregularly shaped Market Place (main market day is Tuesday) is peppered with remains of its medieval past. The massive walls of the fourteenth-century Moot Hall were built to serve as the gatehouse to "The Hall", a well-protected enclosure that was garrisoned against the Scots. Nearby, the archbishops also built their own prison, a formidable fortified tower dating from 1330 and constructed using stones plundered from the Roman ruins at Corbridge. Now, as the Old Gaol , this accommodates the Border History Museum (April-Oct daily 10am-4.30pm; Feb, March & Nov Mon, Tues & Sat 10am-4.30pm), which provides information and displays concerning the border-raiding Reivers.
Hexham's train station sits on the northeastern edge of the town centre, a ten-minute walk from the abbey; the new tourist office is halfway between the two, in the main town car park behind the Safeway superstore (Easter to mid-May & Oct Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 10am-5pm; mid-May to Sept Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm; Nov to Easter Mon-Sat 9am-5pm; tel 01434/652220, hexham.tic@tynedale.gov.uk ). The bus station can be found off Priestpopple, a few minutes' stroll east of the abbey.
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