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"These columns upheld three arches, which divided the apse from the nave, in the Saxon church at Reculver, which was built when Theodore of Tarsus was Archbishop of Canterbury in 670. They were part of the original building. Between 1540 and 1800 the…

The River Meon flows through the Meon Valley in Hampshire and runs from East Meon on the South Downs, through the Valley to the Solent at Titchfield Haven. The River Meon formed the boundary between the West Saxons (Wessex) and the South Saxons…

A collection of everything written before 650 CE about Britain and its near neighbors. Assembled in date order in English with a full bibliography.

The legend of the founding of Evesham is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded…

Views of the sundial and St. Gregory's Minster,Kirkdale.
See:
Bradley, S.A.J., 'Orm Gamalson's Sundial',Kirkdale', Kirkdale 2002.
Fletcher, R.A, 'St. Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale', Kirkdale 2003.

[L. panel]
ORM GAMAL
SVNA BOHTE…

The account (abridged) by Bede of the coming of the English to Britain in the 5th century. He wrote in Latin in the 8th century, and his work was rendered into Old English a century later. The text is copied using an Old English hand, with pop-up…

These notes describe a project carried out at the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester as part of the redisplay of the museum galleries in 1999-2000, to recolour a set of casts of the crosses at Bewcastle and Ruthwell churches acquired…

John McKenna ARBS cast the sculpture, The Vision of Eof, in bronze at the A4A Art for Architecture studio foundry in Ayrshire. The bronze statue was unveiled in 2008 on site on the edge of the town market square in Evesham.

The sculptor had won a…

A view from about halfway up the slope looking west. The Normans attacked from left to right, uphill towards the English positions where the later abbey towers are just visible.

A view of the battlefield from the Norman positions at the bottom of the hill. The English positions were at the top of the hill where the abbey was later built.