Hexham Abbey
Hexham Abbey is a living, vibrant church drawing upon a long and prayerful heritage. It is a place where all are welcome and God’s love is enjoyed, celebrated and shared. The Abbey’s stated mission is to be an open community of Christ’s disciples, sharing our worship, engaging our faith with the world and offering our lives to serve God’s kingdom.
Key information
Contact
Kirsty Wills
Compliance and Support Manager
Telephone
N/A
Address
Parish Office
Hexham
NE46 3NB
About Hexham Abbey
In the past few years, Hexham Abbey has reunited our
magnificent Abbey Church with its former Priory Buildings to develop wonderful
new facilities accessible to all. We now have an exciting opportunity to unite
our spiritual ministry with our outreach to the wider community and the 120,000
visitors, tourists and pilgrims who step through our doors every year.
A place of worship since AD 674, Hexham Abbey is an
important link in the chain of Christianity in Northumbria from the 7th Century
to the present day. Some 120,000 visitors, tourists and pilgrims enter the
Abbey each year for services, private prayer, historical interest and quiet
space. The Abbey is also regularly used for diocesan and civic services, and
for a variety of special celebrations.
Thus, the Abbey is a good deal more than a parish
church. It is Grade I-listed, the mother church of Tynedale and it gives
Hexham its character as an Abbey town, where the church is a visible and public
focus of community life. Hence, its mission, liturgy and spirituality have an
essentially outward-facing character as well as helping to shape and inspire
the life of its congregation.
