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If you'd like to know more about Cedd and his chapel at Bradwell, check out the Open Access book published by @uclpress.bsky.social that I edited a few years ago: uclpress.co.uk/book/st-pete...
St Peter-On-The-Wall
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation ...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Wirksworth still v significant royal holding in the Peak in Domesday with lead mines. Lead from Wirksworth sent by Abbess Cynewaru to Canterbury in 835, so some connection. In Mercia as in Northumbria, stone sculpture v important source for early ecclesiastical history. Here a lost female house? 3/
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM