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Various images taken from Bede's World at Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, a museum on the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery whose most famous resident was the historian, scientist and poet Bede.

Corhampton Saxon Church is situated on the banks of the River Meon which runs from East Meon on the South Downs, through the Meon Valley to the Solent at Titchfield Haven.
The Church, which was built in 1020, when Cnut was King of Wessex and…

Images from the Church of St John the Baptist, Barnack. The lower two stages of the church tower date from c.1000AD.

The chapel of St Laurence has been variously dated from the early eighth to the mid eleventh centuries. For more information, see here: http://www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/bradford1.html

Examples of Anglo-Saxon sculpture photographed at the Priory Church of St Mary, Breedon-on-the-Hill.

Images of the Church of St Andrew, Brigstock, Northamptonshire. For more information, see the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-brigs.html

Images of Anglo-Saxon elements of All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Northamptonshire. This church is mentioned in the Peterborough chronicle as having been founded by 675AD, although other elements of the building were added from the tenth to the…

Images of the surviving tenth-century Anglo-Saxon tower from All Saints' Church, East Barton.

Images of the surviving Anglo-Saxon elements of the church tower of All Saints' Church, Hough-on-the-Hill.

Images of the surviving Anglo-Saxon elements of the church tower of All Saints' Churcn, Wittering, Northamptonshire. The original building has been dated from 950-1100, but 1050-1100 are the most accepted dates.

For further information, see…