English Cathedrals - Ripon
English Cathedrals - Ripon - View across water/footbridge looking towards cathedral. Part of Box 144 Boswell Collection - English Cathedrals There has been a stone church on the site since 672 when Saint Wilfrid replaced the previous timber church of the monastery at Ripon (a daughter house of Aiden's monastery at Melrose) with one in the Roman style. This is one of the earliest stone buildings erected in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. The crypt dates from this period
Picture No
11058959
Media ID
44907689
Size
4596px x 4552px
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Credit
©The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed Lantern Slide from the Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust
Date
circa 1900
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Anglo Anglo Saxon Anglo-saxon Cathedrals Crypt Dates Earliest Erected Melrose Northumbria Previous Replaced Ripon Saxon Wilfrid
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