View SE across a channel of the River Trent to Anchor Church, Derbyshire, reputedly used by Saxon hermits (anchorites) but remodelled in the C18th.
View SE across a channel of the River Trent to Anchor Church, Foremark, Derbyshire, reputedly used by Saxon hermits (anchorites) but remodelled in the C18th as a landscape folly and summer banqueting lodge in the romantic park of Foremark Hall. The enlarged windows and a rebated frame for a timber door were created in the 1720s, probably by Charles Bridgeman for the Burdett family. There are references to Hardulph (Hartulph, Hardulche), an Early Medieval Saxon saint, having a cell in a cliff a little way from the Trent. St Hardulph is considered to be Eardwulf who was deposed as king of Northumbria in AD806, he died in AD830 after living under a form of house arrest in this Saxon cave house. St Modwen has also been linked with the site.
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Location: Anchor Church, Foremark, South Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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