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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…

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…

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.

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.

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,…

Mercian sculpture at Breedon.

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.

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…