Tynemouth Priory

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The pictures shows headstones at Tynemouth Priory.

Tynemouth Castle

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Set on a strong defensive position between the River Tyne and King Edward's Bay on the North Sea coast , this is both a military and a religious site. A 7th-century monastery, the burial place of Oswin, King of Northumbria was here before it was destroyed by Danish raiders. It was later replaced by a Benedictine priory in the 13th Century. The priory's monks surrendered the site to King Henry VIII in 1539.

Tynemouth snow

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Tyemouth was hit with the heaviest snow of winter overnight; this picture shows part of the Priory ruins and the now closed Coastguard station

Tynemouth Priory

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Tynemouth Priory has a long history but in brief , it was was founded early in the 7th century, destroyed by the Danes in 875, refounded in 1090 by Robert de Mowbray Earl of Northumberland . In 1110 a new church was completed on the site. In 1538 the monastery was disbanded by Robert Blakeney, the last prior of Tynemouth. At that time, apart from the prior, there were fifteen monks and three novices in residence. The priory and its attached lands were taken over by by King Henry VIII . The monastic buildings were dismantled leaving the ruins you can see today.

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Tynemouth Priory and Castle

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This was the site of a 7th-century Anglian monastery and burial place of Saint Oswin, King of Northumbria. The present Benedictine priory was built around 1200. The walls surrounding the site are beleived to have begun by King Edward I in 1296; they were later strengthened in the 15th century. The fortress housed gun batteries during both World wars to defend the mouth of the River Tyne. One of the guns can be seen in this photo.