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Posted 14 March 2023.
According to Bede, Aidan built a wooden church at Bamburgh in 635, and died there in 652. Legend has it that Aidan rested on a wooden beam as he died which is now preserved in the church. One of the Bacon Studios windows depict's Aidan's passing.
The church is 12th century with many modification and additions over the centuries. It was restored in 1830 and 1895 when the splendid W. S. Hicks reredos was installed.
A two light window depicting the standing figures of the virtues Faith and Charity within elaborate niches, with St Cecilia in the tracery. The original cartoon is housed with the Northumberland Archive.1
A low window in the north west of the chancel, now partially obscured by the memorial to the saint. It is fairly unique in the Bacon Studios output, depicting the death of Aidan, who lies dressed in his bishop's attire with hands together in prayer. An attendant choir boy holds his crozier, while in the background a monk and a woman look on. The scroll reads, "Quies Aidan" (Rest Aidan). Roughly translated the inscription in the predella reads: "At a distance from here, you should have worked harder than Saint Aidan, the bishop of Lindesfarne, to rule in Christ. August 31, A.D. 652.
A brass tablet dedicates the window to Henry Frederick Long, Hon. Canon of Newcastle Cathedral and Rural Dean of Bamburgh, vicar of the parish for 13 years. 1900.
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- Northumberland Archive, faculty papers relating to stained glass window in Bamburgh parish Church. Archive ref DN/E/8/2/2/218.
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