St Michael at the North Gate
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St Michael at the North Gate is a church in Cornmarket Street, at the junction with Ship Street, in central Oxford, England. The name derives from the church's location on the site of the north gate o
The Saxon tower of St Michael at the North Gate
Interior of the church
The cell door from the Bocardo Prison where Thomas Cranmer was held before his execution in 1556, now preserved in the Saxon bell tower of St Michael's Church.
The church and former North Gate, with the Bocardo over the gate
Anglo-Saxon architecture
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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 simp
St Michael at the North Gate
…with the tower from 1040 still in existence, the church claims to be Oxford's oldest building. It was constructed of Coral Rag. The church tower is Anglo-Saxon. The architect John Plowman rebuilt the north aisle and transept in 1833. The Oxford Martyrs were imprisoned in the Bocardo Prison by the church before…
Distinctive Anglo-Saxon pilaster strips on the tower of All Saints' Church, Earls Barton in Northamptonshire
Anglo-Saxon house reconstruction at Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, 6th-8th century
All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Escomb Church, County Durham, c. 680