New Numiko website for world heritage wannabe Wearmouth-Jarrow
Leeds digital agency Numiko has launched the website for Wearmouth-Jarrow, a North East monastery which is in the running to become a world heritage site next year.
The site includes a 3D tour around the two churches that make up the Anglo-Saxon monastery, St Peter’s in Wearmouth, Sunderland and St Paul’s in Jarrow, South Tyneside, which was home to the Venerable Bede.
Through interactive content and detailed stories about the monastery's history it aims to provide an insight into the lives of the monks that lived there.
Wearmouth-Jarrow is the UK's nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2011, based on the works of the Venerable Bede and the site's seventh century remains which are still standing.
Dave Eccles, Numiko’s managing director, said: “This was a fascinating project to work on, and we feel honoured to be using modern internet technology to bring alive the history of these early, technological pioneers.
"In the seventh century, Benedict Biscop’s human network allowed knowledge to move throughout Europe which changed people’s lives and understanding, much the same as the internet is doing more than a millennium later."