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All Saints' Church, Brixworth

Brixworth is a village in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, about 5 miles from Northampton. All Saints' church, founded about AD 680, is one of the oldest, largest and most complete Anglo-Saxon churches in the country and has been called as "The finest Saxon church north of the Alps".[1]

LGBT history

According to some sources, Ray Gosling was born in Brixworth in 1939. However other sources give Northampton General Hospital, or even Chester.

References

  1. A W Clapham, English Romanesque Architecture: Volume I: Before the Conquest. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930 page 33