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Scene Description: Source caption: "The museum inside the redundant church"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16708COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1993; now a Natural History Museum]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 66 High St, Colchester CO1 1DN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1206 282941
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on High Street, opposite Colchester Castle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Colchester
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Church Notes: redundant since 1953; later used as Natural History Museum
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There are seventeen entries for Colchester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9925/colchester/] [accessed 8 June 2018]; a priest is mentioned as lord three times (two in 1066, one in 1086) and "0.5 church lands" is noted in one of the entries, but none of them mentions a church, though there must have some there at the time. The entry for this borough in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 9, 1994) notes: "The church's position, at an angle to the modern High Street and on the same alignment as a nearby Roman building, suggests that it existed before High Street was diverted southwards by the building of the castle bailey in the late 11th century". [NB: the other Colchester church dedicated to All Saints, at Shrub End, is Victorian]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U E 355740 N 5750828
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-06-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.