Westminister Abbey / Britian - Oldest Anglo-saxon Door (over 950 Years Old) Approx 1050 A.d.

The Oldest Door in the UK. :

This oak door featured in Westminster Abbey is Britain’s oldest and only Anglo-Saxon Door.

The door has been standing for over 950 years,
dating back to the reign of Edward the Confessor during the 1050s.

The door was made from a single oak from Eastern England in medevial times.

 

Summer Shaq Westbrook
Wouldn't that make it 97x years old

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  Susan Lynne Schwenger
  1050 ad - 2022 is ??? 2022-1050= 972 years old
  
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  Susan Lynne Schwenger
  1050ad = 11th century; as; 2022 = 21st century

 

6.5 feet high and 4 feet wide and leads into a small narrow room.

The top was almost certainly round-arched and would have been around 9 feet high originally.

After the planks were fitted together probably both faces were covered with cow hide,

added to provide a smooth surface for decoration (no trace of painting remains).

Then the ornamental iron hinges and decorative straps were fixed.

Only one of the original straps survives today with hide trapped underneath it (on the inner face of the door).