Services

Sunday	Sung Eucharist 10.00, Evensong 18.30 (choral in term time only)
Wednesday & Thursday	Evensong 18.30 (choral in term time only)

Facilities

Entrance: Free but suggested donation of £3 per person.

Guided tours: By prior booking with the Abbey Administrator

Refectory: Teas in the Monastic Workshop on Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday 13.30-17.00 June -September.

Shop: Abbey Shop for gifts and CDs

Website: www.hexhamabbey.org.uk

E-mail address: admin@hexhamabbey.org.uk

Telephone
Parish Office 01434 602031

Music

Director of Music
Michael Haynes (since 2001)

Choir
The boys & mens choir sing the Sunday & Wednesday services and record, broadcast and tour regularly. The girls choir, formed in 2001, sing the Thursday service. The boys are aged 7-14 and the girls 10-18.

Organ

An 1804 John Avery organ was installed in the Abbey in 1856 being rebuilt on the medieval screen by Nicholsons. It was completely rebuilt in 1905 by Norman & Beard. The current 1974 organ is by Lawrence Phelps of Pennsylvania

2 manuals 34 stops

Pedal 10 stops, Great 10 stops, Swell 14 stops

www.hexhamabbey.org.uk/organ/index.htm

 

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04090

Cathedral

Rector
Canon Graham Usher (since )

Building
There has been a church on the Abbey site since AD 674 as a Bendictine Abbey, an Augustinian Priory and then as the Parish Church of Hexham. The church was founded by St Wilfrid.