St Peter's Church, Wearmouth

St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth was built in 674AD by Benedict Biscop and is one of the oldest churches in Britain, where Christians have gathered for more than 1300 years. This is a place of worship and prayer, pilgrimage and mission.

The church features an Anglo-Saxon porch and tower, with unique carved stones, including intertwined serpents, the abbot’s chair, the consecration cross, ancient burial stones, early glass fragments and stones reaching back to Roman times. An outline of the excavated Anglo-Saxon monastic building in in place in the grounds

Why not visit the church to see these sights for yourself?

St Peter's Church, Wearmouth
Top of the West tower
The 7th century West wall, from inside the church
A close up of the 7th century West wall
St Peter's west wall
7th century stone carvings in their original setting in the West porch
Monastic footprint outlined in recycled glass in St Peter's Church grounds
Stained glass at St Peter's
St Peter's Church
West Porch 7th Century Carvings
St Peter's from the north west
St Peter's from the air
St Peter's and the sea beyond
St Peter's in the summer