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Sunderland Minster

Also known as Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop, Parish Church of Bishopwearmouth, Bishopwearmouth Churchyard

Sunderland, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

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Get directions High Street West
Sunderland, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR1 3ET England

Coordinates: 54.90596, -1.38878
0191 5654066
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A church dedicated to St Michael & All Angels has stood on this site for over a thousand years. For most of that time, it has been known as ‘Bishopwearmouth Parish Church'. The parish of Bishopwearmouth, south of the River Wear was founded in around 940AD, with an original stone church being built shortly afterwards. The first evidence of a church on the site arose in a 1930s excavation when Saxon stones were found. Due to colliery subsidence, the church was virtually re-built beyond recognition in the early 20th century, but not all parts of the former church were lost.

In 1998, following the grant of City status, the church was redesignated as ‘Sunderland Minster' the second Minster church in England since the Reformation (following Dewsbury Minster in West Yorkshire in 1994).

In May 2007, with the adoption of Benedict Biscop as Sunderland's Patron Saint, the church was redesignated as an Extra Parochial Place with the addition of St Benedict Biscop in its title.

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