Brinkburn Priory Tomb Slab /Gravestone.
 

I was at Brinkburn and Cragside today.

Drove into Rothbury for a cucumber for the Guinea pigs but they didn't have any.
Rothbury. Cucumber free zone. :)


Anyway, this is the oldie gravestone in Brinkburn Priory Church presbytery floor.
15th century, '..the tomb slab of William, a fifteenth century prior of Brinkburn'.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/imag...kburn_tomb.jpg

I forgot to count how many gravestones are in the floor - it's not a lot, about ten I would guess.

This one is an interesting example, made from a dark (almost black) limestone full of fossil corals. I feel I've seen this stone somewhere before? Durham cathedral? Anyway it matches the legs of the pulpit base. (19c)

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/imag...urn_priory.jpg


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/imag...ulpit_base.jpg

It was a very nice day today for a visit over there; this is about 1pm:


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/imag...anor_house.jpg

James Bilton, 1698.


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/bilton_stone.jpg

Brinkburn Mill is a holiday let.

more about it here

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/imag...kburn_mill.jpg

A great set of pictures Coquet - excellent! :)

PS. There`s a greengrocer just down from the Co-op, but I`m guessing it would have been closed today (Mon), it being a bank holiday. As for the Co-op, I don`t think they`ve had a delivery since last Thursday. I was in on Saturday and apart from 3 sorry looking cabbages they were clean out of fruit and veg. Mind, got to be really desperate to shop at the Co-op at Rothbury, prices they charge!

PPS. I didn`t buy a cabbage.

Re Rothbury co-op. I see now why it looked like a plague of locusts had hit the place if they have had no deliveries since thursday on a holiday weekend. Mind you I nearly failed the intelligence test on how to get into the shop in the first place. I walked towards the open double doors and they slammed in my face. You have to find the secret entrance further up the street that is disguised as a different shop.

Frosterley marble.

Trying to identify that black limestone with the fossil coral in it has been bugging me for a year. Went into the Laing art galley in Newcastle the other day and they have a polished block of it on display on the ground floor and tiles made from it in the floor itself. " Frosterley marble" it is. From Durham.

http://www.topografik.co.uk/laing-fossil/


Google images

Was in Durham Cathedral last week. Plenty Frosterley marble in there... but.. they don't allow photography except for their special photograph visiting sessions where you pay them a tenner. :(