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Description: | A view in ink of the ruins of St Cuthbert's chapel on House Island or Inner Farne Island, off the Northumberland coast. The chapel was built between 1369 and 1372 by a small group of Benedictine hermits. After Henry VIII's dissolution of monastic houses, it became a lighthouse keeper's cottage, but had decayed substantially by the time Grimm made his drawing. It was partially restored in the 1850s by Archdeacon Thorpe of Durham, who used some 17th-century furnishings from Durham Cathedral itself. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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