The papacy saw that marriage as an opportunity to try to convert England’s pagan Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity. So in the early 590s, Pope Gregory the Great sought to establish contact ...

It is thought to be the first purpose-built place of Christian worship constructed in Anglo-Saxon England. The new evidence strongly suggests that the church — the chapel of St Pancras, in Canterbury ...

Some historians point to Yorkshire in north-central England, while others suggest it was Dumfriesshire in southern Scotland. (This famed Anglo-Saxon ship burial was likely the last of its kind.) ...

A range of early Christian and Anglo Saxon artefacts will go on display at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, English Heritage has announced. Britain's first known prayer bead necklace, one of the ...

Nevertheless, excavations by the Museum of London Archaeology at Harpole, Northamptonshire, in England’s Midlands, have uncovered an astonishing Christian burial of the seventh century, a period ...

IN THE depth of midwinter, when the days are shortest and the shadows longest, comes the winter solstice: the return of the sun. Centuries before the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity, 25 ...