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Abstract When Bishop Hereman of Ramsbury visited the pope in 1050 he told him, says Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, about ‘England being filled everywhere with churches which daily were being added anew in new places, about the distribution of innumerable ornaments and bells in oratories, and about the most ample liberality of kings and rich men for the inheritance of Christ’. Probably Hereman was thinking mainly of great churches, but a national, transformative boom in building and patronage is just as obvious at a local level. By the Norman Conquest, the religious landscape in at least the more easterly parts of England looked very different from the minster centred world which this book has considered so far. It was gradually filling up with solidly built little churches with their own priests, landholdings, and rights to burial and tithe.
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