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church more or less followed the outlines of Durham Cathedral. 

 The similarity between the nave of Durham and the nave at 

 Lindisfarne would be evident to anyone acquainted with the 

 former. Lindisfarne, in short, was an adaptation of the plan of 

 Durham Cathedral to a church of lesser magnitude, and in its 

 construction great ingenuity had been displayed. He regretted 

 that many interesting stones connected with the church had 

 disappeared in the last five years. In dealing with the later 

 history of the building he showed that the church was fortified 

 in 1355, and that in 1431 a new east window was given by John 

 Durham, vicar of Norham, the cost being 13s 4d. From the 

 time of the dissolution of the monasteries in 1564 the church was 

 used as a storehouse for Government stores. In 1721 the 

 building was much above what it was now, as they would see 

 from Buck's engraving. Before 1784 the whole of the east 

 window was destroyed, and in 1821 the walls which were buried 

 were cleared out, but as it was done at a period before people 

 cared to preserve old remains, a great deal of the tiled pavement 

 and the bases of the altar were destroyed. In 1 840 repairs were 

 undertaken by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and 

 since then the ruins had remained as they were until the excava- 

 tions were made by Sir William Grossman. 



The compan3 r adjourned into the cloister garth, where Mr 

 Hodges addressed them farther on objects of interest there. 

 The word " garth " was, he said, an old Saxon word, from which 

 we derived our modern word " garden" — an enclosure, a space 

 surrounded on all sides by buildings. This square was bounded 

 on the north by the nave of the church, and the other three sides 

 were occupied by the domestic buildings, or the rooms in which 

 the monks dwelt in the different portions of the day. The cloister 

 there was extremely small — 66 feet by 35 feet. The place was 

 defended on all sides — in fact, it was as much a castle as it was 

 a church. At the conclusion of his address, Mr Hodges pointed 

 out the places where the recent excavations had been conducted, 

 and described some of the results that had been achieved. 

 Thanks to Mr Hodges were moved, and carried by acclamation. 

 £200 had been spent on the excavations at the date of meeting. 



From the ruins of the Abbey the visitors proceeded to a building 

 near the Manor house where Sir William Crossman has placed 

 all the pre-Conquest sculptured stones which formerly lay about 

 the ruins, and other sculptured stones, and also the objects 



