History:-
In 1958 the then Rector of Jarrow, the Revd. George Beckwith, came up with the idea that in St. Paul's Church each year a lecture should be given on some aspect of the history and significance of Jarrow. The primary purpose of the series of lectures is to spread a knowledge of Jarrow and it's significance. The second purpose is to help provide funds for the fabric and restoration of St. Paul's Church, through the sale of the lectures.
Each year since 1958 there has been a Jarrow Lecture given by an eminent academic. These can be purchased from St. Paul's Church Shop, Church Bank Jarrow NE32 3DZ Tel 0191 489 7052.
This year’s Lecture will take place on Thursday 23rd May – 7.30 pm. The title is 'Deck the Halls' and will be given by Professor Jane Hawkes FSA, Professor of Art History, University of York.
Titles of past lectures:-
2018 Thomas O'Loughlin "Where is the Temple Now"
2017 Richard Gemeson "Codex Amiatinus: Making and Meaning"
2016 Faith Wallis "Bede and Wisdom"
2015 Richard Gem "Bede and Architectual History"
2014 Jennifer O'Reilly "St Paul and the sign of Jonah"
2013 Lesley Abrams "Bede, Gregory, and Strategies of Conversion in Anglo-Saxon England and the Spanish New World"
2012 Sarah Foot "Bede's Church"
2011 Nicholas Higham "Bede as an Oral Historian"
2010 John Blair "Bede and the Culture of the Laity"
2009 Barbara Yorke "Rex Doctissimus. Bede and King Aldfrith of Northumbria
2008 Martin Carver "The Pictish Monastery at Portmahomack"
2007 John Bradley "The Irish Monastery in the age of Bede" (text unavailable as not received from lecturer)
2006 P. D. A. Harvey "Maps in the Age of Bede"
2005 Alan Thacker "Bede and Augstine of Hippo: History and Figure in Sacred Text"
2004 Richard Morris "Journeys from Jarrow"
2003 Clare Stancliffe "Bede, Wilfrid, and the Irish"
2002 Martin Biddle "Bede and Holy Places" (text unavailable as not received from lecturer)
2001 David Rollason "Bede and Germany"
2000 Michelle P. Brown "'In the Beginning was the Word': Books and Faith in the Age of Bede"
1999 Brooks Nicholas "Bede and the English"
1998 Joyce Hill "Bede and the Benedictine reform"
1997 Roger Ray "Bede, rhetoric, and the creation of Christian Latin Culture"
1996 George Hardin Brown "Bede the educator"
1995 Ian Wood "The most holy abbot Ceolfrid"
1994 Éamonn Ó Carragáin "The city of Rome and the world of Bede"
1993 Michael Lapidge "Bede the poet"
1992 D.P. Kirby "Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum: its contemporary setting"
1991 Benedicta Ward "Bede and the Psalter"
1990 Lang, James T. "The Anglian sculpture of Deira : the classical tradition"
1989 Morris, Christopher D. "Church and monastery in the north : an archaeological evaluation"
1988 Leslie Alcock "Bede,Eddius and the forts of the north Britons"
1987 David Parsons "Books and buildings: architectural description before and after Bede"
1986 Piper, A. J. "The Durham monks at Jarrow"
1985 Wesley M.Stevens "Bede's scientific achievement"
1984 Patrick Wormald "Bede and the conversion of England: the Charter evidence"
1983 Peter Clemoes "The cult of St Oswald on the continent"
1982 Malcolm B.Parkes "The Scriptorium of Wearmouth-Jarrow"
1981 Eric Fletcher "Benedict Biscop"
1980 George Henderson "Bede and the visual arts"
1979 James Campbell "Bede's Reges and Principes"
1978 Richard N. Bailey "The Durham Cassiodorus"
1977 Per Jonas Nordhagen "The Codex Amiatinus and the Byzantine element in the Northumbrian renaissance"
1976 Henry M.R.E. Mayr-Harting "The Venerable Bede, the rule of St. Benedict, and social class"
1975 R.A. Markus "Bede and the tradition of ecclesiastical historiography"
1974 Rosalind Hill "The labourers in the field"
1973 Charles Thomas "Bede, archaeology and the cult of relics"
1972 Dom Anselm Hughes "The music of Aldwyn's house at Jarrow and the early twelfth century music of Durham Priory"
1971 T.J. Brown "Northumbria and the Book of Kells"
1970 Kathleen Hughes "Early Christianity in Pictland"
1969 David M. Wilson "Reflections on the St. Ninian's Isle treasure"
1968 J.D.A.Ogilvy "The place of Wearmouth and Jarrow in Western cultural history"
1967 Rupert L.S. Bruce-Mitford "The art of the Codes Amiatinus
1966 Gerald Bonner "Saint Bede in the tradition of Western apocalyptic commentary"
1965 Rosemary Cramp "Early Northumbrian sculpture"
1964 Paul Meyvaert "Bede and Gregory the Great"
1963 G.W.O.Addleshaw "The pastoral organisation of the modern dioceses of Durham and Newcastle in the time of Bede"
1962 J.M.Wallace-Hadrill "Bede's Europe"
1961 Harold McCarter Taylor, "English architecture in the time of Bede"
1960 Dorothy Whitelock, "After Bede"
1959 Peter Hunter Blair, "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation and its importance today"
1958 Bertram Colgrave, "The venerable Bede and his times"