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Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey
Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey was a twin monastery in Northumbria, founded by Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth in 674 and at Jarrow around 681–82. Biscop brought books, masons and glaziers from Gaul and Rome, and the house became a leading centre of learning. Bede lived and wrote there, and its scriptorium produced the Codex Amiatinus. Vikings sacked it in the late 8th century.
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