Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . es as they stood were enough for thewants of the monks ; and there, in considerable part, they are standing yet. The present church of Monkwearmouth has a tower on the porch. Thelower part of this tower and the porch arc taken to be the original work ofBenedict Biscop. The same may be said of the west wall, with its curiouswindow from the tower, ornamented at the sides with baluster-shafts. Theupper part of the tower was taken down by the late vicar, and built again MOXKWEAUMOUTH AND JaKUOW.] BENEDICT B
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . es as they stood were enough for thewants of the monks ; and there, in considerable part, they are standing yet. The present church of Monkwearmouth has a tower on the porch. Thelower part of this tower and the porch arc taken to be the original work ofBenedict Biscop. The same may be said of the west wall, with its curiouswindow from the tower, ornamented at the sides with baluster-shafts. Theupper part of the tower was taken down by the late vicar, and built again MOXKWEAUMOUTH AND JaKUOW.] BENEDICT BISCOP. 361 with the same stones, set in tlie same places. The openhi<^s in the tower, ofthe natme of windows, divided into two arches by a central baluster-shaft, are ofthe same character as those conunonly known as Saxon at St. lionets, Cambridge,St. Mary Wigford, Lincoln, and in other well-known examples. The string-course with cable edging, divided into panels bearing the representations of variousanimals, is unlike any of the other early string-courses which have been preserved ;. MONKWEARMOUTH. and there are no examples elsewhere of the flat stone jambs, carved with inter-lacing serpents, on the sides of the door loading into the nave, surmountedby two baluster pillars on either side of the doorway. The north wall of tlieoriginal church was in existence when the repairs of a few years ago were com-menced. All trace of the monastic buildings other than the chmch has was in G7-4 that the pious servant of Christ, Benedict Biscop, beganto build a monastery in honour of the most blessed Peter, chief of theApostles, on the north side of the mouth of the Wear. The venerable anddevout King of Northumbria, Ecgfrith, gave him a site and helped him in thework. That is Avhat Bede tells us. Bede was only a baby at the time, it istrue, but he passed his early boyhood in the monastery, and at Jarrow he livedand died, so that he had personal knowledge of what he wTote ab
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