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To assist with teaching the period we have assembled a collection of resources based on a selection of themes. These pre-selected images have all been drawn from the Woruldhord, and therefore are available for reuse under those conditions. If using them, each image should be cited accordingly. Other themes: Anglo-Saxon Daily Life, Jewellery, Sculpture, and Weapons.

This theme pack contains a selection of pictures of Anglo-Saxon churches.

From Wikipedia Anglo-Saxon Architecture (accessed 14 feb 2011):
"The architectural character of Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical buildings range from Celtic influenced architecture in the early period; Early Christian basilica influenced architecture; and in the later Anglo-Saxon period, an architecture characterised by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular headed openings. In the last decades of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom a more general Romanesque style was introduced from the Continent, as in the now built-over additions to Westminster Abbey made from 1050 onwards, already influenced by Norman style. In recent decades architectural historians have become less confident that all undocumented minor "Romanesque" features post-date the Norman Conquest."

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• Whole set 'Churches' (.zip file, 25.6MB)
• Handlist which details what is in the set and the correct citation (.doc or .pdf file)
• Individual images:
  1. St Pancras's Chapel, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. C. 600. Image © Jonathan Dore.
  2. Monastery ruins, Anglo-Saxon chancel of St Paul's Church, Jarrow. Image © Chris Foxton.
  3. 7th century stained glass in the chancel of St Paul's Church, Jarrow. Image © Chris Foxton.
  4. St Laurence Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. Image © Stuart Lee.
  5. All Saint’s Church, Heapham, 11th century. Image © Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick.
  6. All Saints' Church, Hough-on-the-Hill, 10th century. Image © Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick.
  7. Church of St Lawrence and St George, Springthorpe, 11th century. Image © Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick.
  8. Church of St Martin, Waithe, 11th century. Image © Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick.
  9. Church of St Michael, Glentworth, 11th century. Image © Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick.
  10. Minster Church of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey, 10th-11th century. Image © Peter Harold Sargeant.
  11. Interior of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey, looking east. Image © Peter Harold Sargeant.
  12. St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. Image © Stuart Lee.
  13. St Nicholas' Church, Tackley, Oxfordshire, 11th century. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  14. St Andrew's, Middleton, North Yorkshire, c.800-1100. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  15. St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn, North Yorkshire – reuse of Saxon crosses in wall fabric. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  16. St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, Sundial. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  17. St Wystan's Church crypt, Repton. 8th century. Image © Jane McCard.
  18. The Reculver Columns, Canterbury Cathedral, 7th century. Image © Jonathan Dore.
  19. Anglo-Saxon Crypt, St Wystan's Church, Repton. 8th century. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  20. Greensted Church, Chipping Ongar, Essex. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.
  21. Nave of Greensted Church. Image © Kelly A. Kilpatrick.