Christianity and Berkswell
The Christian faith came to Berkswell when the village was just a cluster of huts gathered round a well, in the great Forest of Arden - which, in the centuries before the Norman Conquest, covered a large part of Warwickshire.
The well remains to this day, outside the churchyard gate, and it is here that the monks, who brought the faith from Lichfield , would have baptised their converts. We think that the name of the village derives from that of the Saxon landowner, Bercul. The present preaching cross, just inside the churchyard, a medieval replacement of an earlier, perhaps even dating back to Bercul's conversion in the 8th century |
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