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Fearing another destructive Viking raid, the monks at Lindisfarne moved St Cuthbert’s remains, along with The Lindisfarne Gospels<\/a>, possibly to Carham or Norham, but certainly to Chester-le-Street and then to Durham. In 2015, the church raised funds to purchase a facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels, which it displays in church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St Mary and St Cuthbert, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chester-le-Street<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Lindisfarne Community brought the coffin with the incorrupt body of St. Cuthbert, the head of the Christian king Oswald and the Lindisfarne Gospels here in 883. . . .Once established, they built a wooden shrine for their saint, a scriptorium and domestic accommodation and remained here for 112 years. During this time the Bishops of Lindisfarne at Chester le Street presided over a huge diocese stretching from Lothian in the North to Teesside in Northern England and from the west to the east coasts .<\/p>from the church’s website, on the history page of the Saxon Cathedral<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n