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Multi-periodSite Name: Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Alternative Name: Ormskirk Parish ChurchCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 11.162 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Ormskirk
Map Ref: SD4130608436
Latitude: 53.569232N Longitude: 2.887746W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Carving in Lancashire
Possible Anglo-Scandinavian carving located in the masonry of the church's east wall. The carving depicts a man and a woman. It appears that the stone slab on which the image is carved has been taken from another site, perhaps the earlier Anglo-Scandinavian church as it seems to have been carved in a portrait orientation but is now on its side in line with the other bricks in the wall. According to the church's website, the earliest part of the building is the Norman window in the chancel which dates to c. 1170. Little has been written on the church's early medieval history as Ormskirk does not appear in the Domesday survey of 1086 but due to the Old Norse place name it is likely the current church stands on the site of a much earlier building, possibly tenth century around the time of the Scandinavian settlement of the north-west. To the left of the carving is another carving depicting a bird which is clearly much later as it is carved into one of the sandstone bricks that make up the east wall.
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