. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ^.:—. AKCH AT MONKWEARMOUTH. T T may fairly be said tliat there are no buildings in England -*- wliicli can exceed in interest tlie sister Abbey Churches of ^^Wy^^^:iS^r- Monkwearmouth and Jarrow. We have fragments of older buildings in the Avails of churches still in existence, as at Dover,Canterbury, and elsewhere; but their earliest history is irre-coverably gone—blotted out by the pagan barbarians fromwhom the Anglo-Saxon race sprang. At Monkwearmouth andJarrow, on the other hand,

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. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ^.:—. AKCH AT MONKWEARMOUTH. T T may fairly be said tliat there are no buildings in England -*- wliicli can exceed in interest tlie sister Abbey Churches of ^^Wy^^^:iS^r- Monkwearmouth and Jarrow. We have fragments of older buildings in the Avails of churches still in existence, as at Dover,Canterbury, and elsewhere; but their earliest history is irre-coverably gone—blotted out by the pagan barbarians fromwhom the Anglo-Saxon race sprang. At Monkwearmouth andJarrow, on the other hand, we have remains so considerable ofthe earliest buildings that we can see with very fair certaintywhat they were like. In the tower-porch at Monkwearmouthand in the chancel at Jarrow we stand within the walls whichBenedict Biscop reared more than twelve hundred years ago;we are in the actual churches in which Ecgfrith, King of the Northumbrian Angles,worshipped; we are on ground traversed by the little feet of Bede when he servedas a boy at the altar, and paced over by his graver steps when he had become them

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