The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

The Durham Gospels ( Durham Cathedral Library ) are suspected as being created slightly earlier than the Lindisfarne Gospels, and while they have the bird interlace, the birds lack the naturalness and realness of Eadfrith ’ s birds in the Lindisfarne Gospels ( Backhouse 1981, 67 ).

A modern facsimile copy of the Gospels is now housed in the Durham Cathedral Treasury, where it can be seen by visitors.

From the early 8th century come the Durham Gospels, the Echternach Gospels, the Lindisfarne Gospels ( see illustration at right ), and the Lichfield Gospels.

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is where the body of St Cuthbert remained for 112 years before being transferred to Durham Cathedral, and the site of the first translation of the Gospels into English, Aldred writing the Old English gloss between the lines of the Lindisfarne Gospels there.

It may also have held the Lindisfarne Gospels, now also in the British Library, and other books from Lindisfarne that were, and in several cases still are, at Durham Cathedral.

* Durham Gospels

Also active at Lindisfarne in the late 7th century was the scribe known as the " Durham-Echternach calligrapher ", who produced the Durham Gospels and the Echternach Gospels.

The Crucifixion from the Durham Gospels

The Durham Gospels were written by the same scribe that wrote the Echternach Gospels.

Gospel Book Fragment is another manuscript ( MS A. II. 10 ) in the cathedral library which is sometimes referred to as the " Durham Gospels ", but more usually as the " Durham Gospel Fragment ".

The replica ABC is now on permanent display in the first floor lobby of the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral includes a list of priests ; two are named Bede, and one of these is presumably Bede himself.

He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

Symeon of Durham records the victory of Offa in 771 over the Hestingorum gens, that is, " the people of the Hastings tribe ", and the same tribe gave their name to Hastingleigh in Kent.

In the Durham case, the court ruled that a defendant is entitled to acquittal if the crime was the product of his mental illness ( i. e., crime would not have been committed but for the disease ).

For instance, the carriage of the remains of St Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham is the subject of " The Road from Lindisfarne ", the third movement of the Durham Concerto ( 2007 ) by Jon Lord.

This is an emerging Durham tradition, with patchy observance since 2001.

* 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

Smith is married to Pam, a former model who grew up in Easington and Durham, and the couple have houses in St John's Wood, Oxfordshire and Barbados.

* 1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

The court is named for John Cosin ( 1594 – 1672 ) who was successively Master of Peterhouse, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Prince-Bishop of Durham.

* October 25 – St. Cuthbert's Society, University of Durham is founded after a general meeting, chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.

* July 4 – The University of Durham is founded by an act of Parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.

* April 9 – The Treaty of Durham is signed between King Stephen of England and David I of Scotland.

* Cirencester Grammar School is founded in south-west England by the Bishop of Durham.

As an example of the difference in the softer South County Durham / Wearside the English ' book ' is pronounced ' bewk ', in Geordie it becomes ' bouk ' while in the Northumbrian it is ' byuk '.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

A largely honorific post, the current Chancellor is Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham.

* Durham Cathedral is completed.

* Northumbria is divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Palatine of Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire.

The existence of an ambulatory suggests a very large building, on a par with Durham Cathedral.

Symeon of Durham stated that St-Calais was chosen as a bishop for this reason, describing him as " very well versed in sacred and secular learning, very conscientious in matters of divine and worldly business, and so remarkable for good conduct that he had no equal amongst his contemporaries ".

Edward III's first coinage, between 1327 and 1335, is very similar to the Edward I and II pennies, with the inscription around a front-facing bust of the king ; these pennies were minted in London, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Durham, York, and Berwick on Tweed.

Before his demise at the Battle of Bosworth Field pennies were produced for him, inscribed, at London, York and Durham, but they are very rare — only one penny is known which was produced in the London mint.

Henry's first coinage is very like that of Henry V and VI, minted at London, Canterbury, Durham and York the inscription is one of a variety of.

Lord Durham noted in 1839 " There is, in truth, very little of family connection among the persons thus united ".

By contrast others considered it immoral to broadcast scenes of violence, the Dean of Durham protesting " against an entertainment which wounds the heart and violates the very sanctity of bereavement ".

No 2 South Bailey has distinctive circular ' blind ' windows which were revealed during a re-rendering in the 1980s, and enabled Martin Roberts, then Durham City's Conservation Officer, to date the building very precisely to the late 17th century.

Described by Mafioso Donald Frankos as a little bright-eyed man who stood at 5 feet 7 inches, he was very talkative, chain-smoked hand rolled Bull Durham tobacco cigarettes, and dispensed mounds of legal advice to any convict willing to listen.

A right-handed batsman and a very occasional off-spin bowler, he played First-class cricket for both his home state Tasmania and English county side Durham.

At the time, Durham University was very small, indeed so small that its continued existence was in some doubt.

When Vaughan Williams heard that the University of Durham was going to confer an Honorary D. Mus on Rubbra in 1949, he wrote him a very short letter.

CHEX-TV-2 in the Durham Region, formerly a semi-satellite, now airs a very different schedule from the Peterborough station.

During wartime, men around Durham City were scarce, but there was an airbase nearby, Middleton St. George, and Canadian Airmen often came to the rink as ice hockey was very popular in Canada at that time, as it still is, and competition was a good way to boost morale.

Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites .< ref > Alongside Martène and Suntrup ( cited above ), convenient collections of illustrative material include W. G. Henderson, ed., < cite > Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis ,</ cite > Surtees Society Publications 63 ( Durham, 1875 for 1874 ), especially Appendix III " Ordines Baptismi " below as < cite > York Manual </ cite >; Joseph Aloysius Assemanus, < cite > Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae, I: De Catechumenis </ cite > and < cite > II: De Baptismo </ cite > ( Rome, 1749 ; reprinted Paris and Leipzig, 1902 ); J. M. Neale, ed., < cite > The Ancient Liturgies of the Gallican Church ... together with Parallel Passages from the Roman, Ambrosian, and Mozarabic Rites </ cite > ( London, 1855 ; rpt.

Oddly, the village has the dialling code 01388 which is generally thought of as a South Durham area code, most notably for Bishop Auckland however the village is very firmly a North Durham village, having previously been administered by Derwentside District Council.

Even though Burnopfield is considered to be in County Durham, it is very close to the Gateshead District Border and has a Newcastle upon Tyne postal address.

In medieval times Witton Gilbert was very central being important to churchmen of Durham and contains a retreat where the great Churchmen resided.

The school has a very strong academic reputation with a significant number of students accepted into prestigious universities each year, such as Oxford University, University of Cambridge, and Durham University.

At one time the line carried a very heavy industrial traffic to support the iron and steel industry of the Furness area, including coke from County Durham.

Sedgefield is situated in County Durham, an area renowned for its mining history and very strong affiliation to the Labour Party.