Complex sentence: The post-conquest accounts portray him as a defender of the church rather than a saintly ascetic; they depict Guthlac overseeing the building of a stone chapel on the site of the abbey.
Split into simpler sentences: The post-conquest accounts portray him as a defender of the church rather than a saintly ascetic. The later accounts on the other hand depict Guthlac overseeing the building of a stone chapel on the site of the abbey.