The "Old Church"

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doktoratomik Jan 4, 2007 13:59:41
Replying to moss

That complicates things even further! The legend of Phagan and Deruvian re-discovering the wattle church is widely discussed, but I've never heard a reference to the church being rebuilt of stone by them. Most sources accept that if it existed, it was still a wooden structure by the time the Saxons arrived c700AD. This is also implied by St Paulinus allegedly preserving the old church in timber and wood. The thick plottens!

M moss
moss Jan 5, 2007 10:17:50
Replying to doktoratomik

doktoratomik wrote:
That complicates things even further! The legend of Phagan and Deruvian re-discovering the wattle church is widely discussed, but I've never heard a reference to the church being rebuilt of stone by them. Most sources accept that if it existed, it was still a wooden structure by the time the Saxons arrived c700AD. This is also implied by St Paulinus allegedly preserving the old church in timber and wood. The thick plottens!
To go back to my book and curious facts.. - Phagan and Deruvian also built a chapel on the Tor, which was dedicated to St.Michael, now if you will believe this story St.Patrick came to Glastonbury (age 111 years) and rebuilt this chapel, and perhaps re-established?? the other church - he founded a community of 12 brethren (with poetically saxon names) and was supposedly buried on the right hand side of the altar... There's also a saxon monastic site on the flank of Tor Hill if I remember rightly from Rahtz.. so several communities around this obviously sacred island... Stukeley also gets in on the act, he saw "The Famous Glastonbury Abbey Book, or rather screen, for it is big enough" at Naworth, in Cumberland - a book with wooden leaves covered with vellum...