Architectural Styles
Anglo-Saxon
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
410-1066
- Local materials (wood, flint & increasingly stone)
- residential wattle & daub walls
- post-and-beam construction
- thatch roofing
- early Christian influence
- simple rectangular churches with nave
- aisles & apse
- rubble stone walls with larger stones for corners & foundations
- decorative stone carvings on doorways and capitals
- some mosaics & wall paintings
- churches with E-W orientation
- often part of monasteries with cemetries & cloisters
- fortified structures with thick walls
- fireplaces & hearths,
- England
- Wales
- Scottish borders
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Churches
- royal residences
- fortified towns (burhs)
- monasteries with cloisters
- Great Halls
- Community centres
- burial mounds
- later castles
- St. Peter’s Church Barton-upon-Humber
- Church of St. Mary, Deerhurst,
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Old Minster, Winchester
- St. Cuthbert’s Church, Norham
- St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
- Church of St. Mary, Bredon
- St Peter’s Church, Bradwell-on-Sea (Essex)
- St Laurence’s Church, Bradford-on-Avon (Wiltshire)
- Escomb Church (County Durham)
- All Saints, Brixworth (Northamptonshire)
- St Paul’s Church, Jarrow
- St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth
- All Saints’ Church, Earls Barton Northamptonshire
- Greensted Church Essex
- St Cuthbert’s Church, Norham
- Barn in Kent
- Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
- St Bene’t’s Church, Cambridge.
- Odda’s Chapel, Deerhurst;
- Roadside shelters
- taverns (tabernae
- Inns
- Monastic guesthouses
- longhouses/Longhalls
- Archaeological remains of a late 9th-century longhall (probably a high-status residence with communal functions) were found in Cheddar, Somerset
- The Porch House, Stow-on-the-Wold (c. 947 AD) — often claimed to have an Anglo-Saxon origin as a guesthouse or hospice site
Landmarks
