Must say that my English Heritage Membership Card has paid a handsome return on this trip and today I visited another fine location--Tynemouth Priory & Castle. I have sat outside the Priory on many occasions eating fish & chips from Marshall's, but have never until today gone in and it is a treat for those who appreciate Northumbrian history as it is the burial place of three kings most famously St Oswine, Christian king of Deira the southern end of the kingdom now trading as a little place called Yorkshire. Also buried here is Malcolm III, king of Scotland. Indeed the King's School Tynemouth has as part of its coat of arms three crowns', now I don't want to be pedantic but shouldn't it be The Kings' (rather than King's) School if that was its antecedence?
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Places: Tynemouth Priory
Must say that my English Heritage Membership Card has paid a handsome return on this trip and today I visited another fine location--Tynemouth Priory & Castle. I have sat outside the Priory on many occasions eating fish & chips from Marshall's, but have never until today gone in and it is a treat for those who appreciate Northumbrian history as it is the burial place of three kings most famously St Oswine, Christian king of Deira the southern end of the kingdom now trading as a little place called Yorkshire. Also buried here is Malcolm III, king of Scotland. Indeed the King's School Tynemouth has as part of its coat of arms three crowns', now I don't want to be pedantic but shouldn't it be The Kings' (rather than King's) School if that was its antecedence?
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