Reconstruction drawing showing an aerial view of Cuthbert's hermitage on the island of Inner Farne in the Farne Islands to the south of Holy Island, as it may have appeared in the late seventh century

Date:
circa 1993 - circa 2000
Location:
St Cuthbert's Hermitage, North Sunderland, Inner Farne, Northumberland
Reference:
IC059/003
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

Cuthbert was an Anglo-Saxon hermitic monk, living on Inner Farne in the late seventh century. He was made Bishop of Lindisfarne in 685, but returned to Farne to die within two years. His remains were buried in Lindisfarne Priory in March 687. When his remains were exhumed eleven years later in 698, it was found that his body had not decayed at all, and so the cult of St Cuthbert was born and Lindisfarne became a pligrimage site.

This image was reproduced on page 8 of the 2002 English Heritage guidebook for the site.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC059 Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Dunn, Peter

Keywords

Early Medieval Anchorite Cell, Early Medieval Hermitage (Religious)