Lindisfarne Priory

The Priory on Holy Island is one of the most important early centres of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. Founded in 635 and home toma small number of monks, itvwas to become a shrine when the body of Cuthbert was exhumed 11 years after his burial and found I decayed. Cuthbert was a very Holy man who became prior of Lindisfarne in 664.

The extra is the sanctuary in St Mary's Church. The present church is over 800 years old and is built over and around an earlier Saxon church.

Home tomorrow after a lovely break in Northumberland.