The site of the Saxon church in Pontefract
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The site of the Saxon church in Pontefract
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 1 Apr 2018
Just up the hill from the present All Saints church (which has been there since the 12th century) and below the Norman castle, is the site of the original church in the town, exposed by archaeologists in 1985. An explanation board revels that it was probably built c.700 (to which period burials on the site have been dated) and certainly by AD 947 when "King Eadred accepted the allegiance of the Northumbrians and Archbishop Wulfstan of York".
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53.696008
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