The inside
of the Church
The outside of the Church
The remains of the other Priory buildings
The inside of the Church
The view is to the east wall with the north wall on the left. These are the two remaining walls of the church started in 1216 by Prior Thomas de Melsonby. The lower half of these walls needed a fair amount of restoration work in 1855 while the upper half required much less.
In larger churches of these times half way up the wall there was an arcaded walkway and nearer to the top there was a row of windows also with arcading. The way in which there two features have been united at Coldingham has been described as remarkably clever.
Reference - W. Douglas Simpson: Coldingham Priory: A Famous Border Monastery, Proceedings of Northumberland and Durham Archaeological Society, 1927
Interior stonework on north wall at War Memorial
window.