Photographs of Lindisfarne

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St Mary's Church
Lindisfarne Castle
Lindisfarne Priory

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Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England also known as Holy Island. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by St Aidan around AD 635. Lindisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the place where the Lindisfarne Gospels were created. Viking raids made the Monks leave the island in 875 and they didn't return until the 11th century when the Benedictine priory and convent of Durham refounded a cell of the cathedral monastery in 1068.
The priory was dissolved in 1537 and much of the stone was used to build a small defensive castle on the highest point of the island for King Henry VIII.

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