Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, Northumberland
General view of the east end of the ruins of Lindisfarne Priory. This is the site of the pre-Conquest monastery founded around AD 634 by Aidan. He was a missionary bishop of Iona. In 1081, the site became the property of the Benedictine priory and convent of Durham. It was refounded as a cell of the cathedral monastery. This is when the present priory was built in c1093. The priory was dissolved in 1537. This site is now in the care of English Heritage (2010).
