St Cuthbert’s Posthumous Biography: A Revised Edition

This paper presents a commentary on, and amplification of, a recent study of nineteenth-century excavations of St Cuthbert’s tomb in Durham Cathedral. As well as offering several corrections to that paper, it draws on unpublished letters and local printed sources to describe further associated excavations, and to suggest that Anglican and Roman Catholic responses to these investigations were more complex and less adversarial than there described.