The Gatehouse website record for Chapel of St Cuthbert, Inner Farne Island

In the civil parish of North Sunderland. In the historic county of Durham; North (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

St Cuthbert's Chapel is a single-cell building and was built in about 1370. It is built on top of an earlier building, as there is C12 and C13 masonry in the lower parts of the north wall. The chapel was restored in the 1840s by Archdeacon Thorp. Outside the west wall of the chapel are the foundations of a small room which may a porch or chapel at the entrance of the church, sometimes known as a galilee and typical of churches dedicated to St Cuthbert. Brooke writes "has indictations that defensive traits may have been incorporated into its structure" as the external north wall is totally without openings.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU21803598

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 8302
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is N5894 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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