View SW across River Wear to Finchale Priory, England, UK. St Godric settled here as a hermit in the early 1100s after a life as a seafarer & pilgrim.
View SW across the River Wear to Finchale Priory, England, UK. St Godric settled here as a hermit in the early 1100s after a life as a seafaring merchant-adventurer. The present priory was built in the mid-C13th on the site of his hermitage by Benedictine monks from Durham. Later it became a rest-house/retreat hostel for monks from Durham.
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Location: Finchale Priory, Durham, County Durham, England, UK
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