Bare stone walls nearly a thousand years old press inward around rows of simple wooden chairs in this hushed interior view of St. Laurence's Saxon Chapel at Bradford on Avon — one of the best-preserved Anglo-Saxon churches in England, rediscovered by the Victorians only in 1856 after centuries of use as a school and charnel house. The wrought-iron chandelier hangs on its chain above the nave, and the characteristic double-splayed Saxon windows and narrow chancel arch are perfectly framed in this early Frith's Series photographic card, published for local retailer W. Delesbo of Bradford on Avon. Francis Frith's firm, founded in 1860, created the most comprehensive photographic survey of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and cards like this one — sold through local stationers — brought ancient parish architecture to a mass audience for the first time. The "Affix Half Penny Stamp" box and "Printed in Saxony" text date this to the pre-1907 undivided-back era, when the address-only rule still applied.