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St. Cuthberts Chapel. | Raines History of N.Durham | on Sheet | In a paper read before the Berwickshire | |||
St Cuthberts Chapel | St. Cuthberts Chapel. | Mr G Tate, F.G.S. &c, Alnwick | 17.A | Naturalists’ Club, in 1836, by Mr G Tate F.G.S. | ||
St. Cuthberts Chapel. | Mr W Darling, Longstone Isd | The Antiquities of the Sacred erections on | ||||
St. Cuthberts Chapel. | Mr Troth, Keeper, Farne Isd | Farne island are thus excellently described. | ||||
"On the brow of the hill are some in | ||||||
-teresting medieval remains |
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Ó¿ in this Chapel from the years A.D. 1369 to 1372. Funds for this purpose | two Chapels. One chapel was dedicated | |||||
were obtained chiefly from contributions by the pious and collections | to St. Mary, and it is now so completely | |||||
made by the monks. "Let their names", exclaim the grateful monks, as | a ruin, that all architectural features | |||||
they record the benefactions, "be for ever written in the Book of Life!" | are lost; but of the original structure | |||||
Fifty years ago, this chapel was inhabited by the person who | of the other, enough is left to show | |||||
attended to the light on the tower; subsequently it became roof | its character and determine its age. | |||||
-less, and was fast hastening to decay; but Archdeacon Sharp, with | One original window in the south wall, | |||||
the laudable design of preserving this interesting relic of another age, | and a small doorway at the S.E. | |||||
and of supplying a place for occasional public worship on the island | end, are of the decorated Gothic style; | |||||
caused it, in A.D. 1848, to be repaired and restored. The interior | the window has a pointed arch with | |||||
has been fitted up with oak sittings, and with a range of carved oak | a quatrefoil centre, and two lights, | |||||
stalls along the north and south walls. Within this sacred edifice is | each with a trefoil heading. This | |||||
placed a monument to the memory of Grace Darling, who died October | chapel is 40ft. by 18ft., and is placed | |||||
20th, 1842, aged 26 years, with a noble tribute from the pen of Wordsworth." | from E.S.E. To W.N.W. Extensive repairs | |||||
equal almost to its rebu[ilding] were made Ó¿ | ||||||
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