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The Side Of St Bene’t’s Church

The side of St Bene't's Church in Cambridge UK

The double asterisk in the title is not a mistake. It is to reconcile the Anglo Saxon and Latin names of the founder of the church, St Benedict.

St Bene’t’s Church is on Bene’t Street. This photo is of the side of the church, taken from a narrow alley that few walk down.

The tower of the church dates back to about the year 1020 AD. So yes, that makes the tower over one thousand years old.

I’ll photograph the church from Bene’t Street at some point.

By the way, one way to recognise very old brickwork is from the narrow height of the bricks. Modern bricks are twice as tall.

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2 responses to “The Side Of St Bene’t’s Church”

  1. Tamara

    I have always wondered about the name of the street — and also felt sorry for the businesses on the street who bear that address. What a confusing spelling!

    Interesting that it reconciles the two names, but I don’t get the reconciliation. So it is St. Benedict and what other name that are smooshed together, eh?

    Lovely, peaceful photo. Amazing how old the church is!

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    1. David Bennett

      I don’t get it eight but it was just one name but in Anglo-Saxon and in Latin – and the smooshing of the name in the two languages was reconciled as Bene’t.

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