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Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about 20 round-tower churches in Germany, of similar design and construction ...
Construction of a long nave, with the tower now at one end. [6] Usually the extension would be to the east, producing a west tower. [7] However, this is only a hypothesis; [5] we have only one surviving Anglo-Saxon timber church, Greensted Church, a small number of written descriptions, and some archaeological evidence of ground plans. [8]
Distinctive Anglo-Saxon pilaster strips on the tower of All Saints' Church, Earls Barton. Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for ...
The Anglo-Saxon church was simple in plan, consisting of the tower, nave and chancel. It was quite large by the standards of that time, the chancel measuring 20 feet square. [10] The round tower and a large amount of fabric at the west end of the nave and in the chancel date from the 11th century. [11]
Near the dangerous Scottish border, the peel tower was a type of tower house or small castle; in Scotland they were even more common. The bastle house was a two-storey version, continuing what had been a common form of house for the better-off across the country in the late Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods. [18]
Buildings and batter by William Blackburn 1785–90, on foundations of 1235 round tower The 13th-century well inside the 11th-century motte. Today, the remains of the Saxon St.George's Tower, Motte-and-Bailey Mound, the Prison D-Wing and Debtor's Tower make up the Oxford Castle & Prison tourist attraction.
The cemetery and tower are cared for by St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Milford, part of the Catholic Diocese of Worcester, and The Friends of Old Saint Mary's Cemetery, an ...
Cockley Cley's parish church is one of Norfolk's 124 existing Anglo-Saxon round-tower churches, and thus dates from the Thirteen Century.All Saints' is located on Swaffham Road and has been Grade II listed since 1960.