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“When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even”‘Good King Wenceslas’ is a rather odd carol. Who was Wenceslas, and why do we sing about him at Christmas?#threadSt
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The Sound of Music has led generations of children astray.Do is not a deer. Re is not a drop of golden sun. And Mi has nothing to do with me,
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At St Mary’s, Eastwell the vitality of the frothy foliage balances the morbidity of the decaying church.A picturesque lake created to the east of the church in the 1800s caused
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Today, we thought we'd look back at some of our 'big saves'. First, St Peter’s, Wickham Bishops, Essex. We took it on in the ‘70s, repaired it, found four schemes of
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Our two churches in Lincolnshire stand in what was once Viking territory. In the late 9th C a swathe of Eastern and Northern England was occupied by Danes and other
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So far this year, we’ve taken three closed churches into our care. They were no longer needed for worship. Two would have been demolished.Our places of worship are the spiritual
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St Edmund was an Anglo-Saxon Christian king who ruled East Anglia in the 9th century. He was killed in battle by Danish invaders. Legend has it Edmund was captured alive;
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The churches in our care are derived from the landscape they occupy. Forest, mountain, field and sea, in many cases, we know exactly where the raw materials came from. Locally
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The riverside church at Boveney, Bucks dates to the 12th century. Its charmingly lopsided belltower is constructed from enormous oaks, most likely delivered by barge from the nearby Windsor Forest.
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In some churches you might spot Christ, mid ascension, carried within a colourful oval. The oval is known as the mandorla. It represents the intersection of the terrestrial and the
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When you 'remember, remember' the 5th November, BELLS probably aren’t the first things that come to mind.But in the years following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the ringing of church
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This morning, come with us as we watch one little church make its daily spin around the Earth’s axis.Arriving at dawn through farmland on the edge of the river Usk,
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