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Great North Window – Bentham and Eleanor Hall Memorial Window
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Six lancet lights in oak frames. The three lower lancets are devoted to the twelve Apostles; each figure of the saints is represented as bearing something characteristic of his character, history or martyrdom, each in a geometrical shape, the spandrels and spaces between being filled with Early English ornamental work on a ruby ground, and a surrounding border in harmony with the window above. The subjects were chosen by Canon Barker (the Rector).
Memorial Inscriptions: Across the bottom of the lower lights:
✠TO THE GLORY OF GOD✠ | AND IN MEMORY OF BENTHAM HALL | AND ELEANOR ANN HIS WIFE A:D 1873.
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1872–1873
“While Hexham Abbey Church was being restored, Messrs John and James Hall offered to fill the six long lancet-shaped windows that light the end of the northern transept with stained glass, from designs — appropriate to the building and their purpose — by Messrs Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle. This was acceded to.” [William Hayward, “James Hall of Tynemouth”, Vol.I, 1896]
Unveiled 1873.
Jan 1971: Repair of upper windows put in hand at a cost of £919 0s 8d [Churchwardens Record HEXAB9535 p21]
It has been reported that the windows were designed by William Bell Scott, based on drawings by Francis Oliphant, but Scott had left Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1864 and moved to London, and Oliphant had left William Wailes in 1847 and died in 1859, 13 years before the windows were commissioned.
North Transept/North Wall
CND: NTNW1

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CB-6 | NC13
Great North Window, top-left
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St Andrew is also depicted in three painted panels, HEXAB133.24, HEXAB203.14, & HEXAB213.10, and in other windows: HEXAB1407.1, HEXAB1407.2, HEXAB1407.3, HEXAB1417, & HEXAB1418.5
St Peter is also depicted in two painted panels: HEXAB203.7 & HEXAB213.9; and five times in other windows: HEXAB1405, HEXAB1407.1, HEXAB1418.3, HEXAB1418.5, & HEXAB1423
West (left-hand), from the bottom upwards: ‘Andrew brings Peter to Jesus’ (John 1:41–42); ‘Call of Andrew and Peter’ (Matt. 4:18–19); ‘Feeding the multitude’ (John 6:5–13). At the top is an angel with a harp.
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
1045 × 5500
North Transept/North Wall

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Great North Window, top-centre
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St Thomas is also depicted in HEXAB1418.5 and in painted panel HEXAB203.2
Centre, from the bottom upwards: ‘The Transfiguration’ (Matt. 17:1–5) [on the left ‘✠ELIAS✠’, on the right the ten commandments]; ‘Incredulity of Thomas’ (John 20:24–28); ‘Commission to the Apostles’ (Matt. 28:16–20); ‘Pentecost’ (Acts 2:1–3). The dove hovering at the top, radiating beams of light to each of the Apostles, represents the Descent of the Holy Ghost.
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
940 × 6650
North Transept/North Wall

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Great North Window, top-right
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St James (the Greater) is also depicted in HEXAB1418.4 and in painted panel HEXAB203.13
St Peter is also depicted in two painted panels: HEXAB203.7 & HEXAB213.9; and six times in other windows: HEXAB1405, HEXAB1407.1, HEXAB1418.1 (twice), HEXAB1418.5, & HEXAB1423
East (right-hand), from the bottom upwards: ‘The Martyrdom of St James’ (Acts 12:1–2); ‘Peter delivered from Prison’ (Acts 12:3–11); ‘The Vision of St John’ (Rev. 1:12–16). At the top, as in the western lancet, is an angel with a harp.
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
990 × 5500
North Transept/North Wall

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Great North Window, bottom-left
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St James (the Greater) is also depicted in HEXAB1418.3 and in painted panel HEXAB203.13
St Matthias is also depicted in painted panel HEXAB203.4
St Philip is also depicted in painted panel HEXAB203.11
West (left-hand), from the bottom upwards: ✠S: MAT…S ‘St Matthias’ [a halberd]; ✠SANC SIMON ‘St Simon’ [a saw]; ✠SANCT …PPVS ‘St Philip’ [a long cross]; ✠S. JACOBVS Maj ‘St James the Great’ [a pilgrim's staff and bag].
Inscription across the bottom:
✠TO THE GLORY OF GOD ✠
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
1996: Protected with 6 mm polycarbonate by B & R Glazing Co Ltd in June 1996 [Faculty reg. no.4, Faculty no.4762.]
2011/2012: All the polycarbonate protection was removed and wire guards fitted by H&R Developments, Caulkerbush, Dumfries in Oct–Nov 2011 and Jan 2012. [Faculty dated 26 July 2011]
640 × 7500
North Transept/North Wall

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Great North Window, bottom-centre
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St Andrew is also depicted in three painted panels, HEXAB133.24, HEXAB203.14, & HEXAB213.10, and in other windows: HEXAB1407.1, HEXAB1407.2, HEXAB1407.3, HEXAB1417, & HEXAB1418.1 (twice)
St Jude is also depicted in painted panel HEXAB203.3
St Peter is also depicted in two painted panels: HEXAB203.7 & HEXAB213.9; and six times in other windows: HEXAB1405, HEXAB1407.1, HEXAB1418.1 (twice), HEXAB1418.3, & HEXAB1423
St Thomas is also depicted in HEXAB1418.2 and in painted panel HEXAB203.2
Centre, from the bottom upwards: ✠SANC ….DÆVS ‘St Jude’ [alias St Thaddeus – an axe]; ✠SANC .HO.AS ‘St Thomas’ [a spear]; ✠SANCT PETRVS ‘St Peter’ [a fishing boat]; and at the top ✠SANC ANDREAS ‘St Andrew, the patron saint of Hexham Abbey’ [in the dominant central position – a saltire cross].
Inscription across the bottom:
AND IN MEMORY OF BENTHAM HALL
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
1996: Protected with 6 mm polycarbonate by B & R Glazing Co Ltd in June 1996 [Faculty reg. no.4, Faculty no.4762.]
2011/2012: All the polycarbonate protection was removed and wire guards fitted by H&R Developments, Caulkerbush, Dumfries in Oct–Nov 2011 and Jan 2012. [Faculty dated 26 July 2011]
580 × 7500
North Transept/North Wall
CND: NTNW1

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Great North Window, bottom-right
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St Bartholomew is also depicted in painted panel HEXAB203.12
St James the Less is also depicted in painted panel HEXAB203.5
St John is also depicted in painted panels: HEXAB133.27, HEXAB199.3, & HEXAB203.6
East (right-hand), from the bottom upwards: ✠SANCT …TTHÆVS ‘St Matthew’ [a sword]; ✠S: JAC… MINOR ‘St James the Less’ [a fuller's club]; ✠S: BART…LOMÆVS ‘St Bartholomew’ [a curved flaying-knife]; and ✠SANC IOANNES ‘St John’ [a quill pen and an eagle].
Inscription across the bottom:
AND ELEANOR ANN HIS WIFE A:D 1873
Wailes Son & Strang of Newcastle
1873
1996: Protected with 6 mm polycarbonate by B & R Glazing Co Ltd in June 1996 [Faculty reg. no.4, Faculty no.4762.]
2011/2012: All the polycarbonate protection was removed and wire guards fitted by H&R Developments, Caulkerbush, Dumfries in Oct–Nov 2011 and Jan 2012. [Faculty dated 26 July 2011]
620 × 7500
North Transept/North Wall
CND: NTNW1

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Brass for Great North Window
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Inscription on a brass plate, fixed on the plinth of the arcade, immediately beneath the central light of the Great North Window
✠THESE SIX WINDOWS WERE PRESENTED IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR PARENTS
BY THE CHILDREN OF BENTHAM HALL AND ELEANOR ANN HIS WIFE – A:D:1873
BENTHAM HALL BORN 7TH AVGVST 1775 DIED 8TH OCTOBER 1859
ELEANOR ANN – DAVGHTER OF THE LATE IOHN COOKE OF THIS TOWN –
BORN 10TH OCTOBER 1792 DIED 8TH FEBRVARY 1868
1st letters of names slightly larger
1873
Bentham Hall carved Queen Victoria's seat [HEXAB188.1] now in the S Transept. See also HEXAB1051
North Transept/North Wall
CND: NTNW1



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