The church was old enough to predate the conquest by centuries, its Anglo-Saxon fabric already ancient by 1066.

But the Norman period brought changes to ecclesiastical organization throughout England.

Archbishop Lanfranc’s reforms of the 1070s reorganized the English church along Norman lines, bringing it into closer conformity with continental practice.

A man buried in St Peter’s around 1079 was buried in a church that was being integrated into this new religious order.

Whether he was a figure of the old order, a Scandinavian-descended long-term resident of the Humber region, or a figure of the new one, a Norman or Flemish arrival whose burial customs nevertheless drew on older northern European traditions, or something in between, he was part of a community navigating a transformed world.

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