A few days ago I took part in a training course that will allow me to lead community walks around Attingham Park. Community walks within Attingham Park is something new and I will be helping shape which walks will be on offer to start off the project.
After the training, which finished mid afternoon I put [...]
Archive for July, 2025
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Community Walk Leader Training
2 Comments CherryPie on Jul 19th 2025
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The Baptistery Window
Details from Coventry Cathedral website:
The artist John Piper was asked to design the stained glass. His view was that with 198 small areas of window to fill, the glass needed dazzling colour and an abstract pattern to create unity.
Working with glassmaker Patrick Reyntiens, he created the window from thousands of differently-sized pieces of glass to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 18th 2025
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The Thornflower by Charlotte Mayer
Thornflower has its roots deep in the artist’s childhood in Prague (which she left in 1939) in happy memories of her grandmothers’ home “Das Rosel Haus (the house of rose)” and in the death of her grandmother in Treblinka in 1942.
It is a reflection not only on the Nazi Holocaust but on “man’s inhumanity” across [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2025
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Christ in Glory
From Wiki:
The tapestry depicts a seated Risen Christ, within an oval mandorla on a green background, surrounded by the four living creatures mentioned in Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation, which are also symbols of the Four Evangelists. The tetramorph (four shapes) of the title are the lion for St Mark, eagle for St John, calf for St Luke, and angel [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2025
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The Old Reflected in the New
The reflection of the ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael is reflected in the glass that surrounds the entrance to the new Cathedral in Coventry.
On 23rd March 1956. Her Majesty the Queen (Elizabeth II) laid the foundation stone for the New Cathedral.
*The ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael dates from 1300AD. One of the largest [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2025
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Ford’s Hospital, Coventry
History of the hospital quoted from a sign on the gateway that enters the courtyard:
“Take a moment to imagine coming home to me more than 500 years ago for very little here has changed. Founded by wealthy wool merchant and benefactor William For, I began life in 1509, the same year Henry VIII ascended to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2025
I recently obtained the North Telford Coronation walks booklet and I am hoping to tick off all the walks before the end of 2025.
I started with one of my local walks where I could walk from home. I started the walk from the pedestrian crossing rather than Leegomery Community Centre. Along the way I detoured [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2025
