Bridge, M. and Miles, D. W H. (2005). The Tree-Ring Dating of the Early Medieval Doors at Westminster Abbey, London. Fort Cumberland: Historic England. https://doi.org/10.5284/1033556. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Early Medieval Doors at Westminster Abbey, London
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Series:		 Historic England Research Reports
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Abstract:		 Six doors were sampled as part of a programme of reassessing the historic medieval timberwork of the Abbey. Some of these doors were initially sampled by Dr John Fletcher in the 1970s. The present analysis resulted in all the doors being dated. The dating has identified the door called 'Pyx', reused in the Chapter House vestibule, as having originated from the Saxon abbey constructed by Edward the Confessor, and constructed between AD 1032-64, making it the oldest scientifically-dated door in Britain. The present Pyx doors from the cloister were likely inserted as a consequence of the AD 1303 robbery of the Royal Treasury from the Chapter House undercroft. A door leading to the stair- vice from the north transept is shown to be original to the mid-thirteenth century reconstruction by Henry III, and that in the South transept at Poets Corner as a mid-fourteenth century replacement. Finally, a door reused in the passage leading to the Chapter House undercroft is shown to be of similar age to the Chapter House and middle section of church. Apart from the 'Pyx' door and the Chapter House undercroft door, all the dated material was found to be either Baltic or German provenance.
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Author:		 M. C. Bridge
D W H Miles
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Publisher:		 Historic England
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Greater London HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2005
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Site: Westminster Abbey
Parish: WESTMINSTER
District: Westminster
County: Greater London
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Chapter House
Location - Auto Detected: Chapter House undercroft
Grid Reference: 530000, 179490 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) N/A (Find)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ABBEY (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ABBEY (Monument Type England)
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
Ad 1303 (Auto Detected Temporal)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
Ad 103264 (Auto Detected Temporal)
Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal)
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OASIS Id: englishh2-107637
OBIB: 38/2005
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Note:		 A4 heat-bound report of 49pp (ISSN 1749 8775)
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016