ABSTRACT
Lawrence Butler always envisaged a discussion of the earthworks at Faxton as they were before much of the evidence was bulldozed away. His texts on the earthworks and the standing buildings are combined here and edited, with corrected bibliography and the insertion of matching figures. Lengthy notes have been re-incorporated into the main text.
The writing of this chapter presented some challenges of which Lawrence Butler was fully aware, not least because his text was superseded in 1981 by the publication of the Royal Commission’s earthwork survey of the village. The content below brings together both sets of observations with additional evidence about the church, about which Lawrence Butler wrote very little in spite of his evident interests in church archaeology. He was apparently unaware of the existence of an archive on the church’s final years held by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
