While Jen was here, we visited Durham cathedral, a long-overdue visit. We wish we had planned an excursion here when our students were here. With the tomb of Cuthbert and Bede (below, right), there certainly were many sites that related to our "Christianity and Culture in Pre-Modern Britain" course. Besides, the cathedral is a gem of Norman architecture. 
Kees and Thomas’ main points of interest were the gigantic knocker on the North door (everyone who knocked on the door was granted refuge in the cathedral precinct for sixty days), and the colony of bats that inhabited the cathedral cloister (that's the small spot in the centre of the photograph).
After Durham cathedral, we made a trip to Finchale priory, on the River Wear, where Saint Godric lived as a hermit. His life was the subject of the novel of the same name. Only a simple stone cross in the nave of the ruined church marks the last resting place of Godric.
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