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simple and unornate kind. Soon after the erection of the church, 
the aisles, for some cause, which we cannot now understand, 
were removed, and the arches being blocked up, windows of a 
date about 1365 were inserted, one of which still remains. 
Several relics of the domestic part of the monastery, and of the 
Prior’s lodging, of various dates, exist, more or less perfect, and 
the old park wall, with its characteristic masonry, and some 
traces of the entrance gateway, are found to the south of the 
buildings. 
After leaving Finchale, the members proceeded up the stream 
of the Wear, by Kepier Wood to Durham, passing through 
wooded glades, rich, at their various seasons of flowering, in the 
scarlet lychnis, the veronica, myosotis, wild garlic, and hyacinth. 
The site of Kepier Hospital, founded by Bishop Flambard in 
1112, was visited.* The only portion of the building which is 
left is the gateway, a piece of fourteenth century work, in which 
was noticed, in a row of sunk quatrefoils above the archway, the 
remains of coloured plaster, a very unusual feature in English 
work, 
At Durham the members visited the Cathedral and Castle, which 
are both too well known to require comment, and which would, if 
noticed at all, require more space than the limits of my address allow. 
In the library attached to the Cathedral they inspected the large 
collection of Roman altars and inscriptions from various stations 
in the district, and the very valuable articles of Anglo-Saxon 
date, taken from the tomb of St. Cuthbert, amongst them the 
gold pectoral cross, probably a reliquary, and a portable altar, 
both personal relics of the saint. The cross is a choice specimen 
of Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s work, and is of the same style of 
workmanship as some of the rich broaches found in the Kentish 
cemeteries. The beautiful stole and maniple of embroidery, 
worked by command of <Aelfled, the consort of Edward the 
Elder, for the use of Frithestan, Bishop of Winchester, were also 
noticed: they are of a date not later than 915, and afterwards, in 
934, were given by King Athelstan to the body of St. Cuthbert 
* The place takes its name from the Yare or Wear, the dam, which there was built 
across the river, and which contained the trap for kepping (catching) the fish. 
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