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- Saxon Origins of St Thomas and St Anne
- Bronze Age Barrow
- Early Church Development – 12th-13th Centuries
- Thatched Church and First Nave
- Plastered and Painted?
- Absent Mass Dial
- The Fourteenth Century Church
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- From an Open Wooded Hilltop
- Neolithic and Bronze Age
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- Viking Neighbours
- Domesday
- The Town of the High Medieval
- The First Market
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- Taxatio Ecclesiastica – Church and Chantry
- Great Famine and Black Death
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- Battle
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- Kempe East Window
- Chancel Glass
- Nave stained glass
- Kempe South Aisle Window
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- Tower Stained Glass
- Victorian and later Renovations
- 1847 Drawings
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- Development of Music in Parish Churches
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- Singers Gallery
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