This post is primarily the ruins of the historic Lindisfarne Priory.
English Heritage – The history of the priory.
Headstones, St Mary’s Churchyard, , Holy Island, Northumberland, England UK
Hope Family Headstones, St Mary’s Churchyard, , Holy Island, Northumberland, England UK
Statue, St Aidan, Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, Northumberland, England UK
Monument to St Aidan, Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, Northumberland, England UK
After a number of Viking raids, St Cuthbert’s coffin was removed from Lindisfarne and eventually buried in Durham Cathedral. As no evidence of his original shrine survives, English Heritage has commissioned a new monument, designed by sculptor Russ Coleman, to mark where the saint’s original burial place and the site of the miracles may have been located. Made from a large basalt boulder found locally, the monument in inset with Frosterley marble as a nod to the grave slab that marks St Cuthbert’s final resting place at Durham. Sitting on a Swaledale fossil plinth, which was found in the region and contains sea creature fossils, the monument stands within the ruins of the 12th-century priory, which claims direct descent from the early monastery.
Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, Northumberland, England UK
