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A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…

PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Peter's Church in Hackness, North Yorkshire, contains a remarkable Anglo-Saxon memorial cross (8th century), which commemorates 'Abbess Oedilburga' (possibly Ethelburga). Reflecting the…

Saint Patrick's Chapel, Heysham, near Morecambe, Lancashire, with the nearby St Peter's parish church, is an early Saxon monument dating from the 8th CCE. While the church is still in use the chapel was ruined at an unknown time, presumably in the…

These photographs were taken by Wendy Parkinson and Paul Fenwick, and feature on Wendy Parkinson's site, Lincolnshire Church Photographs (http://www.wparkinson.com/Churches/Guide.htm), which provides an archive of images of churches from all periods…

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.

Mercian sculpture at Breedon.

Part of an evolving web site covering Anglo-Saxon church architecture from the end of the Roman period to the Conquest, this table is part of my web site and is based on information, extracted by me, contained in H.Taylor's three volumes,…

Photograph of head and one jamb of a Saxo-Norman (?) window in south wall of chancel of St.James church, Dorney, Bucks. Described as Norman in Pevsner; not described in Taylor & Taylor.

A series of photographs created as PDF files for inclusion in a web site about Anglo-Saxon architecture. Each file deals with a particular church and contains specific text/information about that subject.

A poem inspired by the Anglo-Saxon church of St Andrew at Greensted in Essex, parts of which are estimated to be over a thousand years old; it is possible that the site has been a place of Christian worship for 1,300 years. St Andrew's is the oldest…