The story
Audio tour · Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
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You're standing at St Paul's Church in Jarrow, with the ruins of one of England's most famous monasteries right beside it. Take a look across the grounds. Those stone slabs set into the grass aren't random. They trace the layout of the seventh-century monastery, because above ground almost nothing else of it survives.
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