Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey
School or library
Benedictine monastery
Location: 54.9131, -1.3749
What this place is
- School or library — Benedict Biscop's twin monastery and the books he carried home from Rome — the library Bede was given to at seven and wrote in for the rest of his life
Who is recorded here
- Benedict Biscop death · AD 690
In art
About the place
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, was a Benedictine double monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria, England.
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