Editing Anglo-Saxon architecture (section)

== 11th century ==
[[File:Greensted Wooden Church - geograph.org.uk - 284392.jpg|thumb|[[Greensted Church]], Essex, with Anglo-Saxon oak wall]]

The 11th century saw the first appearance of the High [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque style]] in Britain. The decades before the Conquest were prosperous for the elite, and there was great patronage of church building by figures such as [[Lady Godiva]]. Many [[cathedral]]s were constructed, including [[Westminster Abbey]], although all these were subsequently rebuilt after 1066.  [[Norman people|Norman]] workers may have been imported for Westminster Abbey through the Norman [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[Robert of Jumièges]].

Recent arguments and recent archaeological discoveries have raised the possibility that the 11th-century [[St George's Tower]], Oxford, predates both the foundation of [[Oxford Castle]] and the Norman Conquest, and functioned as a gate tower commanding the western entrance into the pre-Conquest burh. If so, the tower was then incorporated into the Norman castle built on the site in the 1070s, instead of being constructed along with it as architectural historians have long assumed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The English Castle|last=Goodall|first=John|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2011|isbn=9780300110586|location=New Haven and London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishcastle1060000good/page/70 70]|url=https://archive.org/details/englishcastle1060000good/page/70}}</ref> It would thus be almost without parallel in England as a purely secular and defensive Anglo-Saxon structure (see below, [[Anglo-Saxon architecture#Secular architecture|Secular architecture]]).

*[[Greensted Church]], [[Essex]] (1013 with oak palisade walls)
*[[Stow Minster]], [[Lincolnshire]] (''c.'' 1040 with a small part surviving from 975)
*[[St Bene't's Church]], [[Cambridge]] (''c.'' 1040)
*[[St Michael at the Northgate]], [[Oxford]] (''c.'' 1040)
*[[St Nicholas' Church, Worth]], [[West Sussex]] (''c.'' 950 – 1050)
*[[Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting]], [[West Sussex]] (''c.'' 1050)
*[[Odda's Chapel]], Deerhurst, Gloucestershire (1056)
*[[St Matthew's Church, Langford]], [[Oxfordshire]] (formerly [[Berkshire]]) (after 1050)
*The tower of Holy Trinity Church in [[Colchester]], [[Essex]] has a [[Norman conquest of England|pre-Conquest]] 11th-century tower built out of Roman rubble<ref>Crummy, Philip (1997) City of Victory; the story of Britain's first Roman town. Published by Colchester Archaeological Trust. ({{ISBN|1 897719 05 1}})</ref>
*St George's Tower, Oxford, Oxfordshire (now a part of Oxford Castle but possibly of pre-Conquest construction date)

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File:St Bene't's Church - geograph.org.uk - 732864.jpg|[[St Bene't's Church]], Cambridge.
File:Odda's Chapel (14403940907).jpg|[[Odda's Chapel]], Deerhurst, attached to later house.
File:Holy Trinity Church Colchester - geograph.org.uk - 1590809.jpg|[[Holy Trinity Church, Colchester]], the tower and west doorway of which are Anglo-Saxon
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