Inspiring Sites:Art and Heritage in the North East North the in Heritage and Sites:Art Inspiring

Inspiring Sites:Art and Heritage in the North East North the in Heritage and Sites:Art Inspiring

Contact us for additional copies of this leaflet leaflet this of copies additional for us Contact Registered charity no: 1126578 Registered company no: 6730565 no: company Registered 1126578 no: charity Registered T: +44 (0)20 7251 8142 E: [email protected] www.wmf.org.uk [email protected] E: 8142 7251 (0)20 +44 T: 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ EC1M London Street, Cowcross 70 World Monuments Fund Britain Fund Monuments World to Meg Bernstein at the YCBA for permission to use photographs. use to permission for YCBA the at Bernstein Meg to the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Photograph of Prudhoe Castle, copyright courtesy of English Heritage. Thanks also Thanks Heritage. English of courtesy copyright Castle, Prudhoe of Photograph Collection. Mellon Paul Art, British for Center Yale the copyright courtesy of The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham. Thomas Girtin, Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland, courtesy o courtesy Northumberland, Priory, Tynemouth Girtin, Thomas Durham. Co. Castle, Barnard Museum, Bowes The of courtesy copyright f copyright courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Thomas Hearne, Barnard Ca Barnard Hearne, Thomas Tyne. upon Newcastle Gallery, Art Laing Museums, and Archives Wear and Tyne the of courtesy copyright stle: Northumberland, and Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The South West View of Jarrow Monastery in the Bishopric of Durham: all images all Durham: of Bishopric the in Monastery Jarrow of View West South The Buck, Nathaniel and Samuel and Northumberland, Thomas Miles Richardson, Prudhoe Castle; John Varley, Holy Island; Thomas Girtin, Durham Cathedral; John Falconar Slater, Hexha Slater, Falconar John Cathedral; Durham Girtin, Thomas Island; Holy Varley, John Castle; Prudhoe Richardson, Miles Thomas m, The following images are reproduced with kind permission: kind with reproduced are images following The This leaflet was funded by The Paul Mellon Estate Mellon Paul The by funded was leaflet This in the North East North the in With thanks to: thanks With A guide to inspirational historic buildings buildings historic inspirational to guide A www.nationalrail.co.uk / www.nexus.org.uk/metro / www.arrivabus.co.uk / www.simplygo.com / www.arrivabus.co.uk / www.nexus.org.uk/metro / www.nationalrail.co.uk disabled parking and access, visit individual websites. For current public transport schedules, see: schedules, transport public current For websites. individual visit access, and parking disabled VISIONS IN STONE IN VISIONS on information and admission times, opening up-to-date for press; to going of time the at correct information All www.durhamcathedral.co.uk www.wmf.org.uk. For more information see: www.festivalne.com/events/event/drawn-together and www.festivalne.com/events/event/drawn-together see: information more For www.wmf.org.uk. initiative is displayed in Durham Cathedral from July to September 2013 and can be seen online at online seen be can and 2013 September to July from Cathedral Durham in displayed is initiative and Hexham Abbey as part of the Festival of the North East. Some of the artwork created during this during created artwork the of Some East. North the of Festival the of part as Abbey Hexham and In June 2013 WMF Britain organised organised Britain WMF 2013 June In at Auckland Castle Auckland at Drawn Together: Making Art in Historic Buildings Historic in Art Making Together: Drawn nteBsorco uhm 1728 Durham, of Bishopric the in www.wmf.org.uk Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The South West View of Jarrow Monastery Jarrow of View West South The Buck, Nathaniel and Samuel For more information visit information more For partnership building. partnership management, education, advocacy and advocacy education, management, through fundraising, conservation fundraising, through the world, and securing their future their securing and world, the historic sites and architecture around around architecture and sites historic to the needs of important but ailing but important of needs the to providing expert and tailored responses tailored and expert providing for the protection of cultural heritage, cultural of protection the for leading non-governmental organisation non-governmental leading World Monuments Fund (WMF) is the is (WMF) Fund Monuments World World Monuments Fund Britain Fund Monuments World Inspiring sites:Art and heritage in the North East The magnificent sweeping landscape of the North East is studded with castles, ruins, mansions, and churches great and small. This rich cultural and artistic legacy stretches back to at least the early eighth century C.E. when the Lindisfarne Gospels were written on Holy Island and Saint Bede made the area an important European centre of learning. For centuries, these sites have been a draw for artists. None were more captivated by the North East’s blend of nature and antiquity than the eighteenth-century painters of the Romantic Age. Many celebrated artists worked in the region – John Varley, Holy Island J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) depicted Prudhoe and Norham Castles dissolved in light, Thomas Girtin Let the grand monuments of the North (1775-1802) produced atmospheric East inspire you, too. Experience their watercolours of Tynemouth and power to evoke centuries of history, time Lindisfarne priories, Thomas Hearne and weather for generations of artists. (1744-1817) painted a picturesque Overleaf is a map of the region with Barnard Castle, and John Varley Thomas Girtin, Durham Cathedral information on six recommended sites. (1778-1842) produced numerous All are easily accessible via Durham or scenes of Holy Island. Capturing the Newcastle, well connected by public emotional power of historic buildings transport and some close enough for a ravaged by time and weather, these combined day trip. Details of train artists evoked a tradition that lives on journeys, metro stops and bus routes are through us, having fired our designed to give you an idea of how easy appreciation and care for the Thomas Hearne, Barnard Castle it is to travel within the region, even irreplaceable monuments of our without a car. shared past. Many of these paintings (and more) are housed in North East collections. Why not visit: The Laing Art Gallery Thomas Miles Richardson, Prudhoe Castle Newcastle Upon Tyne www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing-art-gallery The Bowes Museum Cover image: Thomas Girtin, Tynemouth Barnard Castle, County Durham Priory, Northumberland, ca.1793; Yale John Falconar Slater, Hexham, Northumberland www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Contact us for additional copies of this leaflet leaflet this of copies additional for us Contact Registered charity no: 1126578 Registered company no: 6730565 no: company Registered 1126578 no: charity Registered T: +44 (0)20 7251 8142 E: [email protected] www.wmf.org.uk [email protected] E: 8142 7251 (0)20 +44 T: 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ EC1M London Street, Cowcross 70 World Monuments Fund Britain Fund Monuments World to Meg Bernstein at the YCBA for permission to use photographs. use to permission for YCBA the at Bernstein Meg to the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Photograph of Prudhoe Castle, copyright courtesy of English Heritage. Thanks also Thanks Heritage. English of courtesy copyright Castle, Prudhoe of Photograph Collection. Mellon Paul Art, British for Center Yale the f o courtesy Northumberland, Priory, Tynemouth Girtin, Thomas Durham. Co. Castle, Barnard Museum, Bowes The of courtesy copyright stle: Ca Barnard Hearne, Thomas Tyne. upon Newcastle Gallery, Art Laing Museums, and Archives Wear and Tyne the of courtesy copyright Northumberland, and Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, The South West View of Jarrow Monastery in the Bishopric of Durham: all images all Durham: of Bishopric the in Monastery Jarrow of View West South The Buck, Nathaniel and Samuel and Northumberland, m, Hexha Slater, Falconar John Cathedral; Durham Girtin, Thomas Island; Holy Varley, John Castle; Prudhoe Richardson, Miles Thomas The following images are reproduced with kind permission: kind with reproduced are images following The This leaflet was funded by The Paul Mellon Estate Mellon Paul The by funded was leaflet This in the North East North the in With thanks to: thanks With A guide to inspirational historic buildings buildings historic inspirational to guide A www.nationalrail.co.uk / www.nexus.org.uk/metro / www.arrivabus.co.uk / www.simplygo.com / www.arrivabus.co.uk / www.nexus.org.uk/metro / www.nationalrail.co.uk disabled parking and access, visit individual websites. For current public transport schedules, see: schedules, transport public current For websites. individual visit access, and parking disabled VISIONS IN STONE IN VISIONS on information and admission times, opening up-to-date for press; to going of time the at correct information All www.durhamcathedral.co.uk www.wmf.org.uk. For more information see: www.festivalne.com/events/event/drawn-together and www.festivalne.com/events/event/drawn-together see: information more For www.wmf.org.uk. initiative is displayed in Durham Cathedral from July to September 2013 and can be seen online at online seen be can and 2013 September to July from Cathedral Durham in displayed is initiative and Hexham Abbey as part of the Festival of the North East. Some of the artwork created during this during created artwork the of Some East. North the of Festival the of part as Abbey Hexham and at Auckland Castle Auckland at organised Britain WMF 2013

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