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Stained Glass Window, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Burgh Castle

WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WOMAN

FOR HER PRICE IS FAR ABOVE RUBIES

THE HEART OF HER HUSBAND TRUSTETH IN HER

MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VITUOUSLY

BUT THOU EXCELLEST THEM ALL

A WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD

SHE SHALL BE PRAISED

 

Parts of this church date back to c900AD; it is thought that the church was built on the site of an earlier, Anglo-Saxon, wooden church. The tower was added about 950-1000AD.

 

The nearby Roman Fort is one possible location for an Anglo-Saxon monastery built c633AD with permission of King Siegbert of East Anglia.

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Uploaded on April 1, 2013
Taken on June 7, 2012