Durham, Durham.
Wednesday 21st July 2021
Durham Cathedral, from the banks of the River Wear, which follows a horseshoe path around the city, forming a natural moat for the Cathedral and its protecting Castle.
Just before the start of the river's bend to the left, is one of the city's crossings which is called 'Prebend's Bridge'.
The apostrophe indicates that it either belonged to, or was built by, someone called Prebend.
This has to be a remarkably apt name given the position of this bridge.
An information board nearby says that the name Prebend was a derivative of the Prebendary order of Monks.
Not sure what they did, but most likely they travelled the country looking for river bends and building bridges just before them.
They obviously had to get there before the Postbendary order of Monks, (who would have been coming the other way), arrived and built their bridge first.
There is a fine knocker on the door of the Cathedral (but, sadly, not a pair) which gave crims a bit of breathing space in which to decide their own fate.
Cathedral Cloisters feature an intact wooden ceiling decorated with ornate roof boss coats of arms and grotesques.
Towards the rear, there is an alter dedicated to the 1984 film 'Gremlins', stained glass windows both ancient and modern and ornate tiled flooring.
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