Durham at the opening of the twentieth century : contemporary biographies.

  • Jamieson, James
Date:
1906
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    of the Britons. The opposing armies met at Denisesburn, near Hexham, when Oswald deter- mined to fight under the aegis of the Cross, and Beda tells us how with his own hands he held a rude cross made on the spot until his soldiers had firmly secured it in the ground. He gained the victory, so putting an end for ever to the British power in the North, and in gratitude resolved to establish Christianity in his Kingdom.” This he did by securing as a missionary one of the monks of the Island of Iona, on the west coast of Scotland, where St. Columba, some seventy years previously, had introduced • Christianity from Ireland. Corman, the first missionary, after a short stay, returned to Iona, and was succeeded by Aidan, who set up his bishop’s Photo bv] Auckland Castle. [Ruddock, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Auckland Castle is the last of the fourteen country seats once belonging to the See of Durham. It was originally a manor which was fortified and enlarged by Bishop Bek between 1283 and 1311. King Charles I. stayed here on his way to Scotland, and was brought here a prisoner on his way back to England. stool on the Island of Lindisfarne. The See at first was co-terminous with the bounds of Ancient North- umbria, that is, it extended from the Humber to the Forth. In 678, under Wilfrid, the Northumbrian See was divided, but it still included what is now Dur- ham county, its southern border being the River Tees. Itisscarcely germane in a history of Durham county to follow rhotoby] The Drawing-room, Auckland Castle. tR«ddock, Ltd., NewcastU-on-Tync. Bishop Barrington, who held the See of Durham from 1791 to 1826, built the drawing-room, a noble apartment, 60 feet by 32 feet. It was after- wards much reduced in height by the addition of a stuccoed ceiling. On the walls are a large number of portraits of Bishops of Durham.