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    The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, MonkwearmouthJarrow, known simply as MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey (Latin: Monasterii Wirimutham-Gyruum)...
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    upon Tyne. In the eighth century, St Paul's Monastery in Jarrow (now MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey) was the home of The Venerable Bede, who is regarded as...
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    the area around St. Peter's Church, founded in 674 as part of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and was once the main centre of Wearside shipbuilding and coalmining...
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    of the Benedictine double monastery of MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey. The other church is St Paul's Church, Jarrow. St Peter's is a Grade I listed building...
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  • This is a list of abbots of MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey. Wearmouth–Jarrow is a twin-foundation English monastery, located on the River Wear in Sunderland...
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    Bede (redirect from Bede of Jarrow)
    belonging to the twin monastery of MonkwearmouthJarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, England, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later...
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    Tyne in northern England. It was founded in 681 as a part of the MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey. Most of the church is later, but the chancel is the remains of...
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    from shortly after Cuthbert's death. It was probably a gift from MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey, where it was written, intended to be placed in St Cuthbert's...
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    produced around 700 in the northeast of England, at the Benedictine MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey in the Kingdom of Northumbria, now South Tyneside, and taken to...
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    St Peter's Church, which was founded in 674 and formed part of MonkwearmouthJarrow Abbey, a significant centre of learning in the seventh and eighth centuries...
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