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Images of the Church of St Andrew, Brigstock, Northamptonshire. For more information, see the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-brigs.html

The chapel of St Laurence has been variously dated from the early eighth to the mid eleventh centuries. For more information, see here: http://www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/bradford1.html

The Church of St Wystan is located at Repton in Derbyshire on elevated ground overlooking the floodplain of the River Trent. The site is of exceptional Anglo-Saxon interest, and a significant amount of the Anglo-Saxon fabric survives intact in the…

AN00247059_001_l. Fragment of tapered limestone cross-shaft of rectangular section, carved in low relief on all sides. There is damage on all surfaces. Two apparently secondary features are, on the face (c), an upward-angled, drilled hole above the…

2008BV1261_jpg_l. The monumental free standing cross was a phenomenon unique to the British Isles and Ireland, and this is one of the finest surviving examples. Carved with great skill, the decoration unites interlace patterns of the British Isles…

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…

Kingston upon Thames, or Cyninges-tun as it was known in Saxon times, plays an important part in Anglo-Saxon history, for two main reasons. First, in 838 AD King Egbert of Wessex held a Great Council at Kingston. The Council was attended by the…

Marker showing the original position of the grave of St Augustine (d.605, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury). It would have been near the altar in the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The tomb was destroyed when the Normans…

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,…