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34 REV. J. BENTS! A Mb
finished, was wills great solemnity conse-
crated by himself, and dedicated to the
honour of St. Peter, in the presence of king
Eofrid, and all the abbats and great men of
that kingdom. But of all the churches built
in that age, that of St. Andrew, in Hexham,
deserves our particular notice. Hexham,
with the adjoining territory, was part of the
erowndand of the kings of Northumberland,
and being; settled in dower by kino; Egfrid
on his queen, St. Etheldreda, bishop Wilfrid,
with the king's consent, obtained a grant of
it, in order to raise it to an episcopal see".
In the year 6/4, Wilfrid begun the foundation
of this celebrated church, and Eddius speaks
with great admiration of it, in this manner:
:' Its deep foundations, [22] and the many
subterraneous rooms there artfully disposed,
and above ground the great variety of build-
ings to be seen, all of hewn stone, and sup-
ported by sundry kinds of pillars and many
porticos, and set off by the surprising length
and height of the wralls, surrounded with va-
rious mouldings and bands curiously wrought,
terra usque ad summum aedificatarn, variis eolumnia et vot-
ticibus suft'ultam m allum erexit et consunimavit.'' ^ddll
Vita Wilfridi, ut supra, cap. xvii. p. 59-
" Malmesb. de Gestis Pontif. Angl. p. g?2.—B**- *™*
Hagulst. de Statu Ecclesise, &c. lib. i- cap. % 3- 7.—-L;;'
Elien. MS. fol. u. .
finished, was wills great solemnity conse-
crated by himself, and dedicated to the
honour of St. Peter, in the presence of king
Eofrid, and all the abbats and great men of
that kingdom. But of all the churches built
in that age, that of St. Andrew, in Hexham,
deserves our particular notice. Hexham,
with the adjoining territory, was part of the
erowndand of the kings of Northumberland,
and being; settled in dower by kino; Egfrid
on his queen, St. Etheldreda, bishop Wilfrid,
with the king's consent, obtained a grant of
it, in order to raise it to an episcopal see".
In the year 6/4, Wilfrid begun the foundation
of this celebrated church, and Eddius speaks
with great admiration of it, in this manner:
:' Its deep foundations, [22] and the many
subterraneous rooms there artfully disposed,
and above ground the great variety of build-
ings to be seen, all of hewn stone, and sup-
ported by sundry kinds of pillars and many
porticos, and set off by the surprising length
and height of the wralls, surrounded with va-
rious mouldings and bands curiously wrought,
terra usque ad summum aedificatarn, variis eolumnia et vot-
ticibus suft'ultam m allum erexit et consunimavit.'' ^ddll
Vita Wilfridi, ut supra, cap. xvii. p. 59-
" Malmesb. de Gestis Pontif. Angl. p. g?2.—B**- *™*
Hagulst. de Statu Ecclesise, &c. lib. i- cap. % 3- 7.—-L;;'
Elien. MS. fol. u. .