The west doorway of St Mary's Church, Stow
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The west doorway of St Mary's Church, Stow
Image: © Marathon Taken: 29 Sep 2018
The Shell Guide to Lincolnshire describes St Mary's Church at Stow: "From the centre of the great flat plain, north-west of Lincoln, rises this great fortress-like Norman church, with an obscure little village clustering around it. Very French looking. Traditionally it is Sidnacester, the Saxon cathedral city. Nave and transepts are early Norman. ... a place of great romance." Pevsner in 'The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire' says of it: "Of the early parish churches of England Stow is one of the most monumental." He discounts the probability of this being the cathedral of Lindsey on the Roman site of Sidnacester, but goes on to say: "Yet the size of Stow church, though now partly Anglo Saxon and partly Norman, was very probably already before the Conquest more or less the same as today.." This is the Norman west doorway see also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5934269
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53.327495
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