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Thomas Evans died in 1629. His small brass plaque tells us how he made sense of the world. It shows the firmament, the vault of the heavens which encloses the
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Until the mid-1800s, St Mary’s, Long Crichel in the Cranborne Chase chalklands was a grand medieval church. That is, until fire ripped through and destroyed its Perpendicular elegance. Just the
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There’s about 40,300 churches in the UK. Chances are there’s one within walking distance of where you live. The doors to some might be closed, but with blocked doorways, empty
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When a deathwatch beetle is in the mood for love, it bumps its head off the furniture. These beetles like to chomp through woodwork, and the bumping is their mating
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In the summer of 1985, a phenomenon struck Ireland.Statues of saints were moving spontaneously.In over thirty locations across the small island, holy statues swayed, prayed or wept.Hundreds of thousands of
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On the East Wall of St Beuno's, Penmorfa is a memorial to Sir John Owen of Clenennau, Caernarfonshire. Owen, a soldier and loyal Royalist in the Civil War, was tried
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To enter some churchyards, you have to pass under a small shelter. Often they incorporate a stone platform and seats. They’re known as lychgates, and traditionally, bodies were kept here
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In 1746 in West Africa, a child is playing on the banks of a stream. He's trying to catch a moorhen. It sounds picturesque, but within seconds this little boy
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England has about 3,000 'lost' or deserted medieval villages. We have churches in a fair few of them. Like St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote: a weather-beaten majesty with embattled parapets, cinquefoil
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Off a layby on the A483, you'll find a sunken churchyard. Walk down the avenue of sentinel yews and you'll discover the little church of St Anno. From the outside,
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This is the story of two women brought together by the horror of war, who needed each other to cope in the aftermath… and who stayed together forever.This is the
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In cobwebbed corners of churches across the country are carved alms-boxes. Many, like this one at Watton, Norfolk, are inscribed, urging passers-by to ‘remember the poor’. For centuries, the collections
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