St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, is the Church of England parish church of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England. Much of the church is Anglo-Saxon. It was built in the 8th century, when Deerhurst wa
The church seen from the southwest
Document dated 14 April 1069 in which William the Conqueror confirms the Abbey of St Denis' tenure of Deerhurst Priory
Foundation of the former chancel apse, now demolished
Bifora on the east wall of the third stage of the tower, seen from the nave
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.
St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst
…Dissolution of the Monasteries St Mary's was the church of a Benedictine priory. Deerhurst has a second Anglo-Saxon place of worship, the 11th-century Odda's Chapel, about 200 yards southwest of the church. By AD 804 St Mary's was part of a Benedictine monastery at Deerhurst. In about 1060 King Edward the Confessor…
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