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resting-place at Chester -le- Street in 883. From 

 here it was removed to Ripon, and in the year 

 995 it was taken to Durham, where it remained 

 until the Reformation. This small chapel on Fame 

 Island is only one out of many dedicated to the 

 great English saint. Many other churches bearing 

 his name are found in the wide tract of country 

 between the Trent and Mersey on the south, and 

 the Forth and Clyde on the north. 



Only one service a year is held in this church 

 indeed, I heard that three years had elapsed since 

 this important event last took place. The interior 

 is filled with old oak carving, which, it seems, was 

 placed in the chapel some years after it was built. 

 There are a few scattered gravestones and traces 

 of monastic buildings round and about the church 

 and tower. Several antiquities have been found, 

 including a stone coffin said to have once held 

 the remains of St. Cuthbert. One of these stone 

 coffins is to be seen in nearly every place which 

 St. Cuthbert frequented, but I believe the original 

 is still in Durham Cathedral. 



There is one thing of great attraction to visitors in 

 the chapel, and this is the tablet to the memory of 

 Grace Darling. It was among this group of islands 

 that the Forfarshire was wrecked in 1838, and we all 

 know the story how Grace Darling and her father 

 proceeded to the wreck in an open boat during the 



