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A presentation with images of the West Stow reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village.

Wallingford town defences, probably first constructed during the reign of Alfred as part of his strategy to defend Wessex against Viking attack. Mention of Wallingford is made in the Burghal Hidage, as a 'burgh', or fortified stronghold, with 2,400…

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.

"These columns upheld three arches, which divided the apse from the nave, in the Saxon church at Reculver, which was built when Theodore of Tarsus was Archbishop of Canterbury in 670. They were part of the original building. Between 1540 and 1800 the…

The seal shows the front of a church. The earliest example of its use is on a document of 1133. At that date Exeter's Norman cathedral’s towers would not have been built, and the old Saxon cathedral was still standing.
The depiction could show…

Stonegrave Minster was in existence in AD 757 when a letter from Pope Paul was written to King Eadberht of Northumbria about appointing an abbot. The church was added onto during the Norman period, though most of the present church was built during…

Photographs of the Anglo-Saxon crypt at St Wystan's church in Repton.

St Pancras's Chapel is the third and most easterly of the three 7th century churches in the abbey complex. In this view the entrance vestibule at the west end clearly shows the re-use of substantial amounts of Roman brick. Behind it is the short nave…

St Nicholas' Church is situated on a hill overlooking the Cherwell Valley in the village of Tackley, Oxfordshire. The nave of the church, though primarily Norman in date, preserves some pre-Conquest features. The arches visible in the stonework (on…

Parts of the Saxon St Nicholas church in Leicester date from around 900. My photograph shows two small Saxon windows in the north wall of the nave, displaying Roman tiles in their rounded arches.