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The church of St Andrew's at Middleton dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, and also preserves a considerable amount of Saxon architecture and Viking sculpturework. The bottom of the tower is part of the original Anglo-Saxon building, and the Saxon door…

St Hilda's Church is located in the village of Ellerburn in Rydale, North Yorkshire. The history of the church dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period. Built into the fabric of the present church are over thirteen early sculptural and architectural…

Lastingham was founded by Bishop Cedd in AD 654. St Cedd was born in Northumbria, and was trained at Lindisfarne under St Aidan along with his brothers Cynebil, Caelin and Chad. During his lifetime Cedd was sent to evangelise the Middle Angles and…

St Gregory's is an Anglo-Saxon Church located in Kirkdale near Kirkby Moorside in North Yorkshire. The present building preserves a considerable amount of early Anglo-Saxon crosses and sculptural fragments built into the fabric of the church, which…

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…

All Saints Church at Little Somborne is an Anglo-Saxon and Norman church. Much of the two celled stone Saxon church survives in the nave and north-end of the church. The original Anglo-Saxon west end extended about six feet further, and this was…

The Church of St Wystan is located at Repton in Derbyshire on elevated ground overlooking the floodplain of the River Trent. The site is of exceptional Anglo-Saxon interest, and a significant amount of the Anglo-Saxon fabric survives intact in the…

Greensted Church preserves a wooden Anglo-Saxon church, and it is the oldest wooden church in Europe and is believed to be the oldest wooden building in world. What is now the nave of the church, built of oak timbers in a palisade style, was the…

The church at Ebberston had its origins in the Late Saxon period in the eleventh century. The first church probably comprised an aisleless nave and a chancel. Most of the present church was built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It is…

"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…