Month: February 2021
What did St Wilfrid’s church look like originally ?
February 9, 2021Might it have looked like this? Or maybe it looked like this? […]
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A new church floor – a mixture of discovery and delight!
February 5, 2021The base floor of the church building is earth, and contains much heritage that we have been very careful not to disturb. In the early years of the church, in Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval times, it was usual for people to be buried under the church floor. Evidence of this lay on the surface of the […]
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When was St Wilfrid’s church built ?
February 2, 2021When was St Wilfrid’s Church built? Could it be Anglo-Saxon? We don’t know just how old the church in Barrow is. There are however, some suggestions that it might be up to 1200 years old. Not all of it – most of the building came later; but there are Stones in the south- east corner […]
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