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Anglo-Saxon Style. 119 churches. He invited glass manufacturers from France, who taught their art to the natives of Britain. The total destruction of all the wooden cathedrals, etc. erected before and during the reign of Alfred, renders it impossible to describe their style or appearance. Of the stone churches of later date but very few remain; and ttraiJuTlnt Fig. 52.— Tower of Earl's Barton Church, Northamptonshire. these only in part. The following are the principal : the tower of Earl's Barton in Northamptonshire (Fig. 52), Stukely in Buckinghamshire, the doorway of Barfreston in Kent (Fig. 53), Avington in Berkshire, and Worth in Sussex.