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Detailed illustration of the Anglo-Saxon slab-stone or coffin-slab in St Mary the Virgin Church. It dates from the 7th-9th century. Scenes from the life of Christ are carved on the stone which is embedded in the wall. The slab was discovered under the chancel floor in 1820. The first church here was founded in 653 AD by the Saxon missionary St Betti.

St Mary the Virgin (Wirksworth)

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Detailed illustration of the Anglo-Saxon slab-stone or coffin-slab in St Mary the Virgin Church. It dates from the 7th-9th century. Scenes from the life of Christ are carved on the stone which is embedded in the wall. The slab was discovered under the chancel floor in 1820. The first church here was founded in 653 AD by the Saxon missionary St Betti.

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