The religious tribulations which occurred in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, are often interpreted as beneficiary for the development of religious architecture and monasticism of this northern kingdom. This phenomena is often understood as an answer to the confrontation of two factions, the Celt and the Roman Churches. The resuit of this confrontation being apparently the existence of two unquestionably different architectural types and monastery planning. The present study explores this interpretation's rightfulness and examine possibilities for new models and inspirational sources leading to the creation of the particular types of monastic architecture found in Northumbria.

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