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.
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…
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…
1) Photographs of the exterior of Breamore Church, a Saxon arch (and inscription) within, and a Saxon rood (crucifixion carving). The photographs were taken personally. 2) Small Saxon sculptured relief displayed in Romsey Abbey, (again a…
The abbey complex of St Augustine, founded by the missionary outside Canterbury's city walls, contained three churches, of which this is the easternmost. The surviving sections, which clearly re-use brick from former Roman buildings, include the…
In about 1050 Wulfric, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, decided to join the two early churches of SS Peter & Paul (the first on the site) and St Mary (built directly behind it on the same alignment), to create a single large church. To do this he…
The foundations of the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the place where the early archbishops of Canterbury were buried. Now several feet below ground…
Marker showing the original position of the grave of Justus (d.634, 1st Bishop of Rochester and 4th Archbishop of Canterbury), in the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey,…