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Anglo-Saxon Architecture (ii).
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.
St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire
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 Mary's Lastingham, North Yorkshire
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 Mary the Virgin, Ebberston, North Yorkshire
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…
St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn, North Yorkshire
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…
St Andrew's, Middleton, North Yorkshire
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…
All Saints' Church, Sinnington, North Yorkshire
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…
St Michael's Church, Edstone, North Yorkshire
St Michael's Church in Edstone (or Great Edstone) is located on the edge of a hill overlooking the Ings and the Hambleton Hills The church is Saxon in origin, and it is well known for its late Saxon sundial situated above the door. It is very…
East end of St Pancras's Chapel, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
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…
Footings of Wulfric's Rotunda, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
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…