The parish church stands on the site of the wooden church built by St. Aidan in 635 AD, which during the Anglo-Saxon period was replaced by a small stone church. The Benedictine monks of Durham, who in the 12th century began to build the second monastery, decided this should be the parish church and employed [...]
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The Parish Church of St Mary – Lindisfarne
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2014
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Lindisfarne Priory
Originally home to the Lindisfarne Gospels and the site of grisly Viking attacks, a visit to Lindisfarne Priory is a great day out in Northumberland. Sitting offshore on Holy Island and reached by a causeway at low tide, the peaceful atmosphere and beautiful views from the priory make a visit here well worth the effort.
Lindisfarne Priory was an [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2014
From Wiki:
Aidan of Lindisfarne[1] (died 31 August 651), known as the Apostle of Northumbria, was an Irish monk and missionary credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. He founded a monastic cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and to the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).
After his [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2014
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
25 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2014
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Lindisfarne
I am now going to continue with the places that I visited on last years vacation to Newcastle and Crookham. First port of call is the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. The Island is tidal and can only be accessed by a causeway that twice a day is covered by the North Sea. A journey there [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2014
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Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Synopsis (from book cover):
Sarum is the towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and properity. In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscaped – as old as time [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2014
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Cherry on Her Travels – Latest Update
Although Christmas this year has been an especially busy one for me, I have found a few moments to get my photo collections in order. I have been working on sorting out my flickr collections so that they are up to date and the photos can be viewed by various collections. It is only the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 15th 2014
