This is a new addition to the Pilgrimage, and one for which I have very little evidence, but which I think worth including.
The Northumbrian monastery on the headland at Tynemouth was the burial place of the murdered seventh century St Oswin, King of Deira. When in the years after the Norman Conquest his relics were rediscovered a priory was established as a daughter house of Durham Cathedral priory and dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St Oswin. It then became a daughter house of St Albans - leading to a prolonged dispute with Durham - and became a place for pilgrimage to the shrine of St Oswin. The suggestion is that because of its joint dedication the priory also became a centre for Marian devotion, and excavation of the monastic church has revealed the foundations of a large Lady Chapel which had been added on at the north east of the presbytery.
Plan of Tynemouth Priory
The large Lady Chapel can be seen at the north-east
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Wikipedia has a quite detailed account of the history of the monastery - including a translation of a mid-fourteenth century letter from a St Albans monk exiled to Tynemouth to a friend back in Hertfordshire - and that can be read at Tynemouth_Priory_and_Castle
The remains of the east end of Tynemouth Priory with the Percy chapel beneath. The Lady Chapel was to the right.
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May Our Lady of Tynemouth intercede for us and our intentions
Jesu mercy, Mary pray
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