Odda's Chapel
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Odda's Chapel is a former chantry chapel at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. It is an 11th-century late Anglo-Saxon building, completed a decade before the Norman Conquest of England.
Odda's Chapel (left) and Abbot's Court (right)
Chancel arch seen from the nave
North doorway to the nave
Dedication stone set up by Earl Odda, dated 1056, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Odda of Deerhurst
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Odda of Deerhurst was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman active in the period from 1013 onwards. He became a leading magnate in 1051, following the exile of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his sons and the confiscati
Odda's Chapel
…chancel arch. A smaller Romanesque arch forms a doorway on the north side of the chapel. The nave has small windows high in the north and south walls. Earl Odda had the chapel built for the benefit of the soul of his brother Ælfric, who died on 22 December 1053. Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester consecrated it on…
Earl Odda's chapel at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire