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    The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (Latin: Monasterii Wirimutham-Gyruum)...
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  • Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (the Monkwearmouth part) Wearmouth Bridge Wearmouth Colliery Dick Wearmouth (1926–2012), Australian rules footballer Janice Wearmouth, British...
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    translation of the Gospel of John into Old English. Along with the abbey at Wearmouth, Jarrow became a centre of learning and had the largest library north...
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  • Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. WearmouthJarrow is a twin-foundation English monastery, located on the River Wear in Sunderland and the River Tyne at Jarrow respectively...
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    Ceolfrith (category Abbots of Wearmouth)
    age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project to produce the Codex Amiatinus...
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    and scholar who lived in at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Wearmouth-Jarrow, a double monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, (today part...
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    Monkwearmouth (redirect from Monk Wearmouth)
    area around St. Peter's Church, founded in 674 as part of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and was once the main centre of Wearside shipbuilding and coalmining...
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    Bede (redirect from Bede of Jarrow)
    had connections among the Northumbrian nobility. The monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow had an excellent library. Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired...
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  • c. 23. Archaeologia Aeliana, xix, 47. "Saxon Houses: including Wearmouth and Jarrow", A History of the County of Durham: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 79-85....
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  • Eosterwine (category Burials at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey)
    (1913). "Wearmouth Abbey". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Bede. Lives of the First Five Abbots of Wearmouth & Jarrow, pp. 63...
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    (October 1997:1107–1143). Bede. The Lives of the Holy Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow. Effros, Bonnie (14 June 2012). Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian...
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    Benedictine double monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. The other church is St Paul's Church, Jarrow. St Peter's is a Grade I listed building and part...
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  • York: Robert Appleton Company. "History", St. Peters, Wearmouth-Jarrow "History of St. Paul's Jarrow", English Heritage  This article incorporates text from...
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    Benedict Biscop (category Burials at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey)
    appointed Ceolfrid as the superior, who left Wearmouth with 20 monks to start the foundation in Jarrow. Bede, one of Benedict's pupils, tells us that...
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  • R. (2005). Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites, Volume 1. English Heritage. ISBN 978-1848022188. Cramp, R. (2006). Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites...
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    NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (see below) Jarrow Priory Jarrow Priory Tynemouth Priory Wearmouth Abbey Austin Friars Blackfriars Friars of the Sack Greyfriars Trinitarians...
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  • Ceolfrith, brother of Cynefrith, went to Ripon. Ceolfrith later went to Wearmouth-Jarrow, where he became abbot. It is unknown whether the depopulation of the...
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    Ceolfrith (Ceolfrid, Geoffrey), Abbot, of Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery (716) Saint Egelred, a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, martyred with his abbot and...
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  • found on the list of abbots of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey as Master of Wearmouth in 1526 and Master of Jarrow in 1531. Roman Catholic churchman, George Errington...
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    nobleman, Benedict Biscop, was granted land by King Ecgfrith, founded the WearmouthJarrow (St Peter's) monastery on the north bank of the river—an area that...
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    as the Echternach Gospels a century later. The Synod of Whitby at Wearmouth-Jarrow was a significant Church ruling that affected the production of Insular...
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    texts, other well-known examples of which are several manuscripts from WearmouthJarrow, including the Codex Amiatinus, and in the British Library the Lindisfarne...
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    Age Shetland, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July 2016 The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow, UNESCO, retrieved 17 July 2016 Turks and Caicos Islands, UNESCO, retrieved...
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  • Ripon from Gilling Abbey, which had recently been depopulated as a result of the plague. Ceolfrith later became Abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow during the time...
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  • Houses — including Wearmouth and Jarrow | A History of the County of Durham: Volume 2 (pp. 79-85) Historic England. "EGGLESTONE ABBEY (19827)". Research...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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    Blair, World of Bede, pp. 184–185; Bede, Life of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, c. 15. Grimmer, §25, note 60. Blair, World of Bede, pp. 185–186;...
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    associated with the monasteries on the island of Lindisfarne, Wearmouth-Jarrow, and the Abbey at Whitby, though they are also associated with many other...
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  • Yohanan Aharoni (continues until 1967). Excavation at Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey by Rosemary Cramp (continues until 1978). Recovery of silver rupees minted...
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  • Hwætberht (category Abbots of Jarrow)
    London and New York: Sheed and Ward. Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow in Webb and Farmer (eds & trs), The Age of Bede. London: Penguin...
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