Lyme Regis, St Michael's Church And Town 1890
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More about this scene
This is the east end of the chancel and side chapels of the parish church of St Michael the Archangel. These walls date from 1505, but the building becomes older as it rises to the west. The original church, dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, was cruciform in plan. The tower was thought to date from the 12th century, but repairs in the winter of 1994 revealed a much earlier window, dating from about AD 980, in the south wall of the ringing chamber on the second storey. This was blocked in 1210, and so was an arcade in the north wall of the western old nave, which is now the porch. Outside, the gravestone of the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning (1799-1847) and her brother Joseph is on the north side of the present nave (towards top right). Silver Street lives up to its medieval Latin name - 'silva', meaning a wood - as it rises through trees on the western skyline (top left).
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