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St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow is a Benedictine monastic foundation established in 681 by Ceolfrith, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and churchman, on the south bank of the River Tyne in County Durham. The monastery became one of the most significant centres of learning in early medieval Northumbria, and is renowned as the place where the Venerable Bede spent much of his life and produced many of his major works. The surviving remains include the chancel arch and other structural elements of the seventh-century church, which form part of the present parish church of St Paul, as well as excavated archaeological deposits that have revealed the extent of the monastic complex. The site represents an important survival of Anglo-Saxon monastic architecture and remains central to understanding the intellectual and spiritual life of early medieval England.
St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002978. View the official record →
St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow is a Benedictine monastic foundation established in 681 by Ceolfrith, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and churchman, on the south bank of the River Tyne in County Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002978.
St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002978.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Village of Jarrow (0.1 km), Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, Wallsend Roman fort, Segedunum (3.9 km), Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 0, two sections of Hadrian's Wall between Sharpe Road and The Avenue (4.1 km).
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St Paul's Monastery, Jarrow stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.