IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE
BRITAIN: ENGLAND
BRIXWORTH (ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH)
PLANS AND DRAWINGS
Floor Plan
Based on Taylor, vol III p 979 |
Based of Baldwin Brown, v2, p 112
Interior to West
Screen-sized image |
Elevation
Based on Dehio, Plate 48
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EXTERIOR
Screen-sized Image
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1972
Screen-sized Image/ Large
"Archive" Image

Preliminary Notes
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Probably one of the daughter houses founded by Cuthbald , abbot of Peterborough
(became abbot in 678) (Knowles
and Hadcock, 468)
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Nave and lower tower of present structure probably dates from late 8th
or early 9th century. (Wilson,Anglo-Saxon
Art, 59)
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Once had aisles. (Knowles
and Hadcock, 468)
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Still in use as an ecclesiastical structure.(Knowles
and Hadcock, 468)
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Dimensions- West Turret 8feeet 10 inches by 8 feet 10 inches: West tower
12 feet 5 inchs by 15 feet: Nave 59 feet 8 inches by 30 feet 2 inches:
Presbytery: 31 feet 6 inches by 31 feet; apsidal chapel 19 feet 3 inches
by 17 feet 8 inches ( Taylor, p 113)
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Most walls are almost 4 feet thick (Taylor p. 113)
Preliminary Bibliography
Brown, Gerard Baldwin. The arts in early England / by G. Baldwin Brown.
London : John Murray, 1915-1926. LCCall Number:
NA963 .B877
Taylor, H.M. and Joan Taylor. Anglo-Saxon architecture Cambridge
[Eng.] University Press, 1965-78. LC Number:
NA963 .T24
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