<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rennie_the_Elder" id="mwOA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Rennie the Elder">John Rennie</a>'s scheme to defend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Church,_Reculver" id="mwOQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St Mary's Church, Reculver">St Mary's Church, Reculver</a>, founded in 669, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_erosion" id="mwOg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coastal erosion">coastal erosion</a> is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_architecture" id="mwOw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anglo-Saxon architecture">Anglo-Saxon architecture</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_art" id="mwPA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Anglo-Saxon art">sculpture</a>.<sup about="#mwt40" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_12#cite_note-6" id="mwPQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwPg">[6]</span></a></sup>
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