Stow Minster
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The Minster Church of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey, is a major Anglo-Saxon church in Lincolnshire and is one of the largest and oldest parish church buildings in England. It has been claimed that the Minster originally served as the cathedral church of the diocese of Lindsey, founded in the 7th century and is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Church of Lincolnshire".[1]
Stow Minster | |
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Minster Church of St Mary, Stow in Lindsey | |
53°19′39″N 0°40′38″W | |
Denomination | Church of England |
Website | www |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade I listed building |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Lincoln |
Deanery | Deanery of Corringham |
Parish | Stow in Lindsey |
It is partly Saxon and partly Norman in date and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building[2] and was also included in the World Monuments Fund's 2006 list of the world's 100 most endangered sites.[3] It has the tallest Saxon arches of its time in Britain,[4] the earliest known example of Viking graffiti in England (a rough scratching of an oared Viking sailing ship, probably dating from the 10th century), an Early English font standing on nine supports with pagan symbols around its base and an early wall painting dedicated to St Thomas Becket.
Today it is part of the Stow Group of Churches.[5]