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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…

AN00037374_001_l. Cross-shaft; stone; decorated; all four faces carry panels of running vine-scroll ornament in three varieties; also an additional small fragment, previously assembled with wooden mount between the two pieces. All these images are ©…

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…

AN00476288_001_l. Gravestone, tapered & carved on one side with 2 moustached human masks at ends of foliate interlace, 2 animal heads at other end. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered…

Various images taken from Bede's World at Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, a museum on the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery whose most famous resident was the historian, scientist and poet Bede.

Corhampton Saxon Church is situated on the banks of the River Meon which runs from East Meon on the South Downs, through the Meon Valley to the Solent at Titchfield Haven.
The Church, which was built in 1020, when Cnut was King of Wessex and…

Images from the Church of St John the Baptist, Barnack. The lower two stages of the church tower date from c.1000AD.

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

Examples of Anglo-Saxon sculpture photographed at the Priory Church of St Mary, Breedon-on-the-Hill.