The Parish of Jarrow and its partners in the Wearmouth-Jarrow Partnership are celebrating the announcement that the twin Anglo-Saxon Monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow will be the UK's nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2009. The announcement was made on 10 October 2006 by the Department of Culture Media and Sport . The twin monastery was a European cultural centre and home to the Venerable Bede.

Contact: The Revd Bill Braviner, Team Rector

Revd Bill Braviner - Team Rector / Area Dean of Jarrow
St Peter's Church Centre
York Avenue
Jarrow
NE32 5LP

T/F: 0191 489 3279
M: 07868 731 556
E: bill@braviner.com

For Wearmouth-Jarrow Partnership, go to: http://www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk/

For Parish of Monkwearmouth, go to: http://freespace.virgin.net/stephen.hartshorne/parish.html

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Bede's home given World Heritage Site boost (Bede's World website - News, 10 October 2006)

The Wearmouth-Jarrow partnership is celebrating the announcement by the Department of Culture Media and Sport that the twin Anglo-Saxon Monastery Wearmouth-Jarrow, a European cultural centre and home to the Venerable Bede, will be the UK's nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2009.