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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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There are two buildings at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire which are or contain Saxon remains.
Odda's chapel is shown first, then two features
from the nearby Church which was originally Saxon
and much developed later but retaining notable
Saxon…

St Nicholas' Church is situated on a hill overlooking the Cherwell Valley in the village of Tackley, Oxfordshire. The nave of the church, though primarily Norman in date, preserves some pre-Conquest features. The arches visible in the stonework (on…

A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…

PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Peter's Church in Hackness, North Yorkshire, contains a remarkable Anglo-Saxon memorial cross (8th century), which commemorates 'Abbess Oedilburga' (possibly Ethelburga). Reflecting the…

Saint Patrick's Chapel, Heysham, near Morecambe, Lancashire, with the nearby St Peter's parish church, is an early Saxon monument dating from the 8th CCE. While the church is still in use the chapel was ruined at an unknown time, presumably in the…

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…

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.

Mercian sculpture at Breedon.

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,…