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Part of an ongoing web site dedicated to Anglo-Saxon church architecture.

This is an archived collection of files from Frank Parsons' site, located at http://www.anglo-saxon-churches.co.uk/ . For full access, please visit the site online if…

Part of an ongoing web site upon the subject of Anglo-Saxon church architecture.

This is an archived collection of files from Frank Parsons' site, located at http://www.anglo-saxon-churches.co.uk/ . For full access, please visit the site online if…

The church of All Saints at Old Byland dates to the late Saxon period. Most of the present church was rebuilt during the Norman period, but the stonework in the exterior of the chancel suggests that once the roof was lower and this implies that…

A view of the flat-headed arches used in the gatehouse of the Norman castle at Rougemont in Exeter. These are a feature of Anglo-Saxon architecture and suggest that William forced Anglo-Saxon masons to build his castle.
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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.
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At Rougemont a sequence of periods of masonry is distinguishable. The Roman wall of purple volcanic stone was heightened here with quite different masonry of white sandstone, whose parapet underlies the Norman castle. Since the castle was built at…

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…

N.B. A new a greatly expanded version of this has been uploaded in January 2014. Please use the Gazetteer V.2, and the new zipped archive of all images (V. 2).

This is a guide to churches within a “day-trip” of Oxford which have been…

St Martin's is the original building given to St Augustine by King Aethelberht when he arrived in 597, when it was one of the few Roman buildings still standing. It is thus perhaps the oldest church building in continuous use in England. The chancel…

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…