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A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and “Overlap” Churches around Oxford (Od Version v. 1)
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…

All Saints Church, Wing, Images
Wing is a small village in Buckinghamshire on the Icknield Way. It's church - All Souls - though greatly added to over the centuries, retains several distinct Anglo-Saxon features notably a window at the East End of the nave, a doorway (now bricked…

Interior, Little Somborne
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…

All Saints, Old Byland, North Yorkshire
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…

Brixworth (Northants.): A-S (reconstruction)
Images of Anglo-Saxon elements of All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Northamptonshire. This church is mentioned in the Peterborough chronicle as having been founded by 675AD, although other elements of the building were added from the tenth to the…

Earls Barton (Northants.): A-S tower/pilasters
Images of the surviving tenth-century Anglo-Saxon tower from All Saints' Church, East Barton.

Hough on the Hill (Lincolnshire) A-S stair turret
Images of the surviving Anglo-Saxon elements of the church tower of All Saints' Church, Hough-on-the-Hill.

Sinnington.JPG
The present church of All Saint's in Sinnington is mostly a late Norman building, but numerous fragments of Anglo-Saxon and Norse sculpture work are preserved in the fabric of the church, clearly implying that its origins are much earlier. I believe…

All Saints' Church, Wittering, Northamptonshire
Images of the surviving Anglo-Saxon elements of the church tower of All Saints' Churcn, Wittering, Northamptonshire. The original building has been dated from 950-1100, but 1050-1100 are the most accepted dates.

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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,…
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