Abstract This is a preliminary list of saints whose principal cult sites are known to have existed, or can reasonably be inferred to have existed, in pre-Conquest England. It does not claim to be more than a first step towards what should eventually be a book-length work, and its main purpose is to provide some foundation for the arguments offered in Chapter 13 above. No attempt is made to give full biographies or bibliographies for major figures; the saints most fully treated here are on the whole the obscure or previously unknown ones, for whom no ready means of reference exists. Welsh, Cornish, and Continental saints are omitted, even if they appear in the resting-place lists, except when their principal relics are known to have been imported into England before 1066. Also omitted are cults of major figures, for instance archbishops of Canterbury or people mentioned by Bede, which have no pre-Conquest evidence and are best interpreted as late extrapolations from historical sources. Names in both these categories which occur in any of the resting-place lists are included in a summary list at the end, which therefore provides, in conjunction with the main catalogue, a complete index to the lists. Like wise omitted are English saints (e.g. Willibald or the Hewalds) whose careers were abroad and whose shrines and cult sites were outside England. Obscure saints with Anglo-Saxon names known only from late or anecdotal sources (e.g. St Ælfgar of Selwood Forest) are, however, included: this may bring in some ghost figures, but it seems better to be as inclusive as possible in the hope of further evidence coming to light. However, the names of saints for whom, or for whose cults, there is no explicit evidence before 1066 are printed in italics, to signal their hypothetical status.
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