Atlas Obscura
St Peter's Church in Barton-upon-Humber, England
The "Dark Ages" may have not been the gloomiest period in history, but they were "dark" in the sense that relatively little was known about them for quite some time. For instance, nobody was sure what Anglo-Saxon architecture really looked like until the field of architectural history emerged in the 19th century. In 1819, progenitor of the discipline Thomas Rickman was surveying St Peter's Chur…