St Mary and St Cuthbert's Church

This is the church that's right next to my old primary school. As I was passing today I thought I'd snap it for posterity!!!!!


There has been a Christian worshipping community here since 883AD, when monks from Lindisfarne, bearing the body of Saint Cuthbert built a shrine which became, for more than a century, the Cathedral of the Kingdom of Northumbria. It was here that the Gospels were first translated into Saxon English and one of only three facsimiles of the Lindisfarne Gospels can be seen at the Parish Church.