HALF CASTLE ’GAINST THE SCOTS. —“Half church of God, half castle ’gainst the Scots” was how Sir Walter Scott described Durham Cathedral. During a Danish invasion the body of Saint Cuthbert was carried from place to place till it found a resting place on the hillside above the acute horseshoe bend of the River Wear, and became “as firmly fixed as if it were a mountain.” Here teas erected the great Norman Church on “one of the most commanding sites in Christendom.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 6
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82HALF CASTLE ’GAINST THE SCOTS.—“Half church of God, half castle ’gainst the Scots” was how Sir Walter Scott described Durham Cathedral. During a Danish invasion the body of Saint Cuthbert was carried from place to place till it found a resting place on the hillside above the acute horseshoe bend of the River Wear, and became “as firmly fixed as if it were a mountain.” Here teas erected the great Norman Church on “one of the most commanding sites in Christendom.” Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 6
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