A series of ten programmes with Donald Sinden
2: After the Conquest
The decisive events of 1066 turned the trickle of continental influence, already felt at the court of Edward the Confessor, into a flood. In the decades that followed, the majority of our parish churches were established or rebuilt. The Normans thought big, and the use of the feudal system to deploy manpower and materials when and where needed, enabled them to achieve their ambitions. DONALD SINDEN visits the parish churches of Melbourne, Stewkley and Kilpeck.
Film cameraman KENNETH LOWE Film editor PETER ORTON Producer DICK FOSTER