No. 16-16a Market Place, Incorporating Remains Of St Mary's Church

the roof is pitched with ornate ridge tiles and a finial to the right.

South Elevation: at the right, part of a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders, infilled with small squared sandstone and an inserted C13 lancet window, also blocked.

HISTORY: This medieval church was the parish church of Hexham in the Middle Ages.

It was constructed in the C13 and was the successor of an earlier, Saxon, church possibly on the same site, built by Bishop Wilfred.

a reference in 1634 suggests that at that time it was already a roofless shell and it was probably abandoned after the Reformation c1540 when the former abbey church became available.

SOURCES: N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Northumberland 2nd edition , 327-9 PF Ryder, 'Nos 11-13 Market Place (Stafford's Fruiterers), Hexham: A Provisional Archaeological Assessment', unpublished PF Ryder, 'St Mary's Church, Hexham, Parts 1 & 2', unpublished REASONS FOR DESIGNATION This mid-C19 townhouse incorporating important remains of the C13 St Mary's Church is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic Interest: the survival of church fabric is significant for its early date, artistic quality and the archaeological evidence it provides for the presence of different phases. * Date - it represents important architectural elements of an early C13 parish church, other upstanding parts of which are already designated * Design - the gothic nature of the later townhouse is an interesting reflection of the C13 gothic contained within * Group value - the market place setting occupies a site of great antiquity and the remains of the church have strong group value as part of an important group of listed buildings clustered around Hexham's historic market place, with the priory church of St Andrew forming the west side.