[7] O. M. Dalton, op. cit. p. 2.
[8] Bede, Eccles. Hist., L. i. c. 7; Vict. Hist. of Herts., 1908, II. p. 483; F. Bond, English Cathedrals, 1899, pp. 208-9.
[9] C. Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, 1861, v. p. 199, and art. in Archaeologia, XXIX. pp. 217-26. Some of the examples, along with others, are considered by J. R. Allen, Monumental Hist. of the Early Brit. Church, 1899, pp. 12-19, 20-31.
[10] Proc. Geol. Assoc. XXIII. p. 464.
[11] G. Maynard, in Memorials of Old Essex, ed. A. Clifton Kelway, 1908, p. 32. The list was compiled from R. Miller Christy’s Durrant’s Guide to Essex, 1887, passim.
[12] Athenaeum, 1889, p. 314. Examples from other districts will be found recorded in the Victoria Histories for the respective counties.
[13] G. Baldwin Brown, The Arts in Early England, 1903, I. p. 270.
[14] O. M. Dalton, op. cit. pp. 3-4.
[15] J. Romilly Allen, op. cit. pp. 29-31, 40-1.
[16] J. C. Cox and A. Harvey, Eng. Church Furniture, 1907, p. 167. Cf. F. J. Haverfield and M. V. Taylor in Vict. Hist. of Salop., 1908, I. pp. 228, 238. The church at West Mersea has a double dedication (St Peter and St Paul); this fact is believed by some to indicate an early foundation.