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  As for Christchurch being opposite St Martin's priory, anywhere is opposite anywhere if you draw a straight line. Also St Edmund's chapel is "opposite" St Martin's Priory.
  And I really do not know what you are getting at. In these days when churches are more and more poorly attended, surely it would be better to concentrate on building up the congregations in the churches that do exist, than having pie in the sky ideas about rebuilding a 19th Century church that frankly was not that pretty.
  It is also not the only church that was demolished. I can think of one other (St Bartholomews) and also there are no moves to rebuild the one that burnt down recently (opposite the Town Hall).
  Finally - all christian churches are aligned east-west.
  Unfortunately many saxon churches do not survive, even in archaeology, as they were frequently built of wood/wattle and daub. I am not sure why an ecclesiastical centre would be established within the precincts of a castle, when there would have been many less secular areas available in the town below. It could be postulated that a prior religious site had been in existence below St Martin's and that St Mary's in Castro was aligned with that.

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