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{- Per boarshill on HEIRtagger: "Tynemouth castle, on the north bank of the River Tyne, is now an English Heritage site. According to the local information board, three kings are buried here. (1) In 651 Oswin, king of Deira, was murdered by the soldiers of King Oswiu of Bernicia, and brought to Tynemouth for burial. He became St Oswin. (2) In 792, Osred II, king of Northumbria from 789 to 790 and then deposed, was murdered and buried at Tynemouth Priory. (3) In 1093 Malcolm III of Scotland invaded England and was killed at Alnwick by Robert de Mowbray. His body was buried at Tynemouth Priory for a time, but later reburied in Dunfermline Abbey."

"While most elements in this photograph are broadly unchanged today, the inscription on the nearest tall gravestone has now weathered so badly that it is almost illegible and the information it contains will soon be lost. (I have emailed a recent photograph of its current state.) Such records of inscriptions must be another good reason for preserving old photographs in a searchable database."


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The text on the Coxon gravestone seems to have been:

Sacred to the memory of
William Coxon of Tynemouth
Who died December 24 1803
aged 47 years.
Dorothy Coxon.
Widow of the above
Who died October 10th 1841
Aged 45 years.
William Mitcalfe
Son of the above who died (illegible)

Confirmed in Google by Ancestry, which throws up this:
William Coxon
Born on 27 Nov 1757.
William married Dorothy Mitcalf and had a child. He passed away on 24 Dec 1803 in Hms, Yorkshire, England.

Dorothy Coxon.
Born on 22 Nov 1756. Dorothy married William Coxon and had a child. She passed away on 10 Oct 1841 in Tynemouth, England. " -} Bendictine priory founded early 7thc; plundered by Danes 800 AD and monastery/priory destroyed by Danes 865/870 AD; dissolved 1538 AD - monastic buildings dismantled; church remained as parish church until 1668 AD; chapel under ruins (Oratory of St. Mary) - painted ceiling, rose window etc; present castle combines with priory ruins.(P.Day)