St Helen's Church, Thurnscoe
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St Helen's Church, Thurnscoe
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 21 May 2015
The original Church of St. Helen on High Street was built in 1087 though today very little of that early structure remains. Excavations during renovation work under a former Rector, John Hall, revealed evidence of Anglo-Saxon activity, including a skeleton, indicating that it may well have been a sacred site before the Norman church was established here. The church we see today was mostly developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.545208
Longitude
-1.322363