Two Timbered Mediaeval Churches of Cheshire: St. James and St. Paul at Marton and St. Oswald at Lower Peover
Walter Horn|Ernest Born
Recent discovery of remains timbered churches in the subsoil bombed mediaeval church sites Holland and northwestern Germany has made it clear that aisled timber stems typologically not from early Christian basilica, as did masonry church, but a building type even greater antiquity, which was originally associated with purely domestic functions.1 In text fig. 1 are shown plan reconstruction Carolingian parish Breberen, near Aachen, were excavated 1948–1950 by J. P. Tholen.2 Text 2 shows farmhouse fourth century b.c., 1934–1935 Albert Egges van Giffen, Iron Age dwelling mound Ezinge, Groningen province, Holland.3 The layout constructional system these two buildings identical all respects, there can be no doubt they belong to same tradition.
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