Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1940, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, tsabtace bayan lalacewar da bam ya haifar ya bayyana wani archway da aka gina daga sake amfani da tayal na Roman da dutse, wanda aka kafa a cikin bangon da ya tsira daga cocin na tsakiyar zamanai. Sake amfani da kayan gine-ginen Roman, da kuma kwatanta da arches a farkon Anglo-Saxon
cocin a Brixworth, Northamptonshire, ya ba da shawarar cewa All Hallows arch ya kasance farkon kwanan wata, kuma ana iya gina cocin asali tun farkon ƙarni na 7. Wannan ya bayyana ya tabbatar da imani cewa an kafa cocin a matsayin cocin 'yar Barking Abbey a kusan lokaci guda da aka kafa abbey kanta, kodayake yana da shakkar cewa ginin farko a shafin zai kasance a cikin dutse. Yana da mafi kusantar cewa cocin dutse, wanda arch ya kasance ragowar, ya maye gurbin wani gini na katako na farko. Binciken da aka yi kwanan nan, da kuma shaidar archaeological cewa an yi amfani da tayal da dutse na Roman a cikin gina wasu majami'u na London har zuwa karni na 11, ya nuna cewa za a iya gina arch a kowane lokaci tsakanin karni na 7 da kuma zuwan Normans. Sassan gicciyen dutse guda uku na ƙarni na 11 kuma an samo su yayin aikin binciken kayan tarihi a cikin 1930s da ayyukan sharewa bayan fashewar bam, yanzu ana nuna su a cikin crypt, suma sun fito ne daga wannan cocin na farko.