Complex sentence: Work to build a stone church commenced with rock quarried locally, although the original cruciform, unaisled stone church was badly damaged by fire in 1146 and was rebuilt in an enlarged form on the same site.
Split into simpler sentences: Work to build a stone church commenced with rock quarried locally. The original cruciform, unaisled stone church badly damaged by fire in 1146 was rebuilt in an enlarged form on the same site.