Winsmore Lane

Part of a circular stone carved with decoration in Anglo-Saxon style was found, built into a wall in Winsmore Lane, in 1927.

It may have been an architectural feature from Abingdon abbey or St Helen’s church. It is now in Abingdon Museum.

Published Reference: E.A. Greening Lamborn (1935), A Note on a Fragment of an an Anglo-Saxon Wheel Cross found at Abingdon, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 39, 58-59