West Stow Anglo Saxon Village, June 1991

🕯️ England’s Forgotten Crypt: A 1,300-Year-Old Secret Beneath St. Wystan’s Church

What inside these chests? The bones of the Anglo Saxon kings and queen were transferred to the present cathedral from old Saxon minster in 1093. Then, in 1525, Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester enclosed the choir with screens. And as part of his alterations, the bones of several of the kings and bishops of Wessex were ranged in chests along the top of them. These many of these 16th century bone chests survive to these day, only a few are later replacements. Then, in 1642, disaster struck, civil

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