St Laurence's Church at Bradford on Avon

Saxon art is remarkable for its miniature quality, and those buildings which remain are also small in scale. Excavations of Saxon cathedral buildings confirm that they too were relatively insignificant; and this small church is typical of the best of the period. The building owes its survival to its disuse as a church some years before the Norman conquest. From 1715 to 1871, when it was discovered, it had been in use as a school, with its interior much altered.