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Chester-le-Street (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s t ə l i s t r iː t /) [2] [3] is a market town in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is located around 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of Durham and is also close to Newcastle upon Tyne. [4] The town holds markets on Saturdays. [5] [6] In 2021, the town had a population ...
Both during his life and after his death, he became a popular medieval saint of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. Cuthbert is regarded as the patron saint of Northumbria.
Chester-le-Street is in the vale of the River Wear. It was the site of a Roman fort and home to the Community of St Cuthbert before they moved to Durham.
Brief History. Plan of the Roman Fort. The known history of Chester-le-Street dates back to 122AD when a Roman fort was built along the banks of the River Wear. The site of the fort was centred on the Church Chare area, and possibly called “Congangis”.
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The church was established to house the body of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne from 684 to 687. After his death he became one of the most venerated saints of the time, with a significant cultus and the Venerable Bede writing both a verse and prose biography of him. So when driven out of Lindisfarne by Viking raids in 875 the monks t...
The oldest parts of the building that can be dated, to 1056 when a stone church was built to replace the wooden shrine to St Cuthbert, are the walls of the chancel and the two largest pillars now near the centre of the nave. The church then would have been a third shorter and much narrower, as wide as the chancel today. Lewis holes visible in two s...
Bishops 1. Eardulf(883-900) 2. Cutheard(900-915) 3. Tilred(915-928) 4. Wigred 5. Utchred 6. Sexhelm(947) 7. Aldred 8. Elfsig 9. Aldune Deans 1. Mervin 2. Waleran 3. Iolanus 4. Robert 5. Waleran 6. Robert le Bursar 7. Walter de Clifford 8. Magister Alan de Esingwalde Rectors 1. William de Marclan 2. Roger de Gillyng 3. John de Sculthorpe 4. John de ...
The Lumley effigies are reflected upon in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration The Aisle of Tombs to an engraving of a painting by Thomas Allomin Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836: 'All their meaner part hath perished, In the earth at rest; And the present hour hath cherished What of them was best.'
In 1883 the thousandth anniversary of the founding of the church was celebrated, from 18 July to 5 August. To mark the occasion the church was given a major facelift, with some new oak stalls and an oak screen for the chancel, a new dossal and other hangings from designs by C. E. Kempe, a new pulpit given by the Earl of Scarbrough, a new marble pav...
The belfry at the church dates back over 600 years and originally housed three bells. A new ring of six was cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough in 1883; two of the original bells were melted down and the metal included in the new ring. In 1908 two further bells (again by Taylor's) were added to the front of the ring to give eight, hung for cha...
The Lindisfarne Gospels were kept at Durham until 1539, when during the Dissolution of the Monasteries St Cuthbert's shrine there was looted and they were taken to London. Today they are kept at the British Library, but a facsimilecopy is kept at the church and can be viewed when the church is open.
Attached to the church is the former anchorage, one of the few surviving to this day and described as the most complete example of its kind in England. It was created by blocking off one corner of a church in the late 14th century, with an extra room added externally in the 16th century. Originally it was on two levels, but the floor was removed at...
Simeon of Durham; Stevenson, Joseph (1855). The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham.Low Low, John (1881). Durham. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. OCLC 384311.Blunt, William O. (1884). A Thousand Years of The Church in Chester-Le-Street. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. OCLC 31920515.Gerald Bonner; David Rollason; Clare Stancliffe, eds. (1989). St Cuthbert, His Cult and His Community to 1200. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-610-X.Sep 18, 2016 · Lambton Lion Park, cricket, World War I Belgians and much more in our images of Chester-le-Street and Birtley
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