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The Shrine of St Cuthbert, also known as the feretory sits behind the quire. You can access the shrine via the stairs in the Chapel of the Nine Altars.
- “One of The Most Sumptuous Monuments in All England”
- The Cover of The Shrine
- Gifts to The Shrine
- Destruction in The Late 1530s
- St Cuthbert’s Body
The simplicity of St Cuthbert’s shrine today belies its original appearance, which was ornate. It is said that just one of the many jewels decorating the shrine would have been worth a king’s ransom. The base of the shrine was made of expensive green marble and gilded. In the base were four seats, where pilgrims – especially the sick and lame – cou...
St Cuthbert’s shrine was covered with a richly-embroidered cloth, which was raised on special occasions to expose the lavishly decorated shrine itself. The shrine’s gilt cover depicted Christ on a rainbow on one side and Christ as a baby being carried by Mary on the other. At the edges of the cloth were six silver bells, which tingled when the cove...
It was traditional for wealthy patrons to donate valuable gifts to embellish the shrine of an important religious figure, and St Cuthbert received his share. These were placed in gilded and beautifully painted cupboards on either side of the shrine. When the shrine cover was lifted, the cupboards were also opened to display the priceless gifts. As ...
Around 1539, Durham Cathedral was visited by the commissioners of King Henry VIII, who came to strip it of its treasures. An eye witness speaks of the ‘visitation’ of Dr Ley, Dr Henley and Mr Blythman. They brought with them a goldsmith who, when he had taken off the gold and silver and precious stones, climbed up to a chest strongly bound in iron....
He found Cuthbert “lying whole with his face bare and his beard as if it had a fortnight’s growth.” The goldsmith shouted out “Alas, I have broken one of his legs” Dr Henley called out “throw down the bones” But the goldsmith replied that he could not do so because the bones were kept together by skin and tissue. Dr Ley went to the feretory to see ...
Both of Fr. Lynch’s initial reasons are still realities in 2024, and pilgrims find the Shrine to be a place of prayer, peace, and hope. Over the years, it has been called “a jewel” and also “a common meeting ground between Anglicans and Catholics”.
Edward the Confessor was King from 1042 to 1066. He founded a monastery to St Peter, known as Westminster Abbey. His body still lies in his Shrine.
The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Durham and is the mother church of the diocese of Durham. It also contains the shrines of the Anglo-Saxon saints Cuthbert and Bede. There are daily Church of England services at the cathedral, and it received 727,367 visitors in 2019. [3]
St David's Shrine. In the twelfth century Pope Calixtus II declared St Davids Cathedral to be a place of pilgrimage. It was at this time that the medieval shrine was constructed and situated in the presbytery, close to the High Altar.
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Durham Cathedral was built between the late 11th and early 12th century to house the bodies of St. Cuthbert (634-687 AD) (the evangeliser of Northumbria) and the Venerable Bede (672/3-735 AD). It attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and finest example of Norman architecture in England.
