AD 674c. St Peter’s Church Monkwearmouth One Of The Oldest English Anglo-Saxon Church

St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth is the parish church of Monkwearmouth in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. St Peter’s was founded in AD 674–5 as one of the two churches of the Benedictine double monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey. St Peter’s is a Grade I listed building.  

Anglo-Saxon The original church on the site was built at the behest of Benedict Biscop in AD 674–75 when the area was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede (circa 673–735) wrote that Benedict brought stonemasons and glassworkers from Gaul to build the church, as these crafts were not yet established in Anglo-Saxon England.

675ad St Peters Church Monkwearmouth with gold Anglo-Saxon coin c645-685 struck around the time of the church construction.

Of Benedict’s building, only the west wall and porch survive. Its outer arch, at the west end of the porch, is of elaborate design and decorated with stone reliefs. The ground floor of the porch is barrel-vaulted.

By about AD 700, the porch had been enlarged by the addition of a second storey and north and south porticos, forming a westwork. By the end of the 10th century, further storeys had been added to the porch, raising its height to create the present west tower.

Based on the period, the church was built by a dark-skinned Hebrew Israelite King. This is backed up with the original coins issued at that time. Enclosed are images of an English Anglo-Saxon coin hammered from AD 645-685, around the same time St. Peter’s church was built.  it is clear that he based on his phenotype, was a dark-skinned so-called BLACK man.

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Disclaimer:  The gold coin is closest in date to the building of the church. Silbury Coins does not give the name of the King other than the year Anglo Saxon Merovingian Quentovic Gold Tremissis 635-660AD

Source: Article Wikipedia, gold coin Anglo Saxon Gold Thrymsa/Shilling 620-645AD Crondall Period Witmen type Extremely Rare Code: KS209 www.silburycoins.co.uk Fair Use Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fairuse” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. .

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