St Cuthbert Churchyard in Bellingham, Northumberland

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Coordinates: 55.14338, -2.25614
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When St. Cuthbert came to Bellingham in the 7th century, he blessed a natural spring (Cuddy's Well) which appears to have remarkable healing properties. St Cuthbert's Well has never dried up, and its water is used for baptism in St Cuthbert's Church. Part of the church dates back to 1180, but not much of it because the Border Reivers kept burning it down.

Eventually the local people decided to rebuild it entirely in stone, including the barrel vaulting inside and the enormous slabs on the outside of the roof. After that the building remained standing as a place of shelter and worship. There was more violence though: during restoration in 1861, three cannonballs were found in the roof where they had probably been since 1597, when the Duke of Buccleuch's men attacked Bellingham.