. Round the Lake Country. a puzzle for any but skilledbuilders. It was lucky for us that at that time, inthe end of the seventh century, there were in North-umbria most skilled builders as well as most cunningcarvers of stone. They had learned their craft fromGaulish and Lombardic carvers, brought over by thegreat church builders of the time, Benedict Biscop,Ceol frith, Ecgfrith, and others, and those of us whoknow how still the Italian navvy contrives the haulageand the lifting of stones, may have a glimpse of howthe Roman returned here with the arts of peace longafter, with the arts of war,
. Round the Lake Country. a puzzle for any but skilledbuilders. It was lucky for us that at that time, inthe end of the seventh century, there were in North-umbria most skilled builders as well as most cunningcarvers of stone. They had learned their craft fromGaulish and Lombardic carvers, brought over by thegreat church builders of the time, Benedict Biscop,Ceol frith, Ecgfrith, and others, and those of us whoknow how still the Italian navvy contrives the haulageand the lifting of stones, may have a glimpse of howthe Roman returned here with the arts of peace longafter, with the arts of war, he had left the RomanWall. Now, let us carefully examine this Roman monu-ment, which not only embalms the memory of threeof the four northern princes who did more than anyother to make the faith of the Church of England areality in Northumbria in the seventh century, , brother of Oswald, Oswius son Alcfrith, andWulfhere, the Mercian King, but also preserves to usthe name of Cyniburga, Alcfriths widow, daughter of. BEWCASTLE CROSS (SOUTH SIDE) THE BEWCASTLE CROSS 219 Penda, the Pagan King of Mercia, and Cyneswitha,whomay either have been Cyniburgas sister or the widowof Penda and mother of Cyniburga and Wulfhere. There was no greater fighter or missionary kingalive at the time than Wulfhere, King of theMercians, who died three years after this cross wasset up, in the year 67$. There was no greaterbenefactor of art and letters than Oswiu, the kingunder whose patronage Benedict Biscop establishedhis famous seats of learning on the banks of Wearand Tyne and on the Isle of Fame; and there wasno greater decider of the Anglian Churchs destinythan Alcfrith, the arbiter at the Synod of heart thrills as, with memory of that North-umbrian Church and its golden age before ones eyes,one gazes at a monument that brings before us suchremarkable names. Nor is it only as a pillar of remembrance of greatactors in the Churchs drama that this monumentimpresses us as we gaze. F
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