At the side of the organ in the south transept [of the Church of St Cross], traces of wall paintings in a tomb recess are the last remains of what was once an altar to St Thomas of Canterbury, the martyred archbishop. A nearby door was where travellers coming from the continent to Canterbury arrived. [...]
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Comments Off CherryPie on Dec 9th 2016
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The Church of St Cross
… ‘a Norman cathedral in miniature’
Simon Jenkins, England’s Thousand Best Churches
The fine Norman church is all that remains of the original 12th century Hospital. Building began in 1135 at the east end with the north porch added nearly 200 years later. The walls are over one metre thick and built from stone brought from as far [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2016
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Winchester Cathedral
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 2016
The Hampshire church treasure Hinton Ampner, is found in the ancient church of All Saints, where vestiges of Anglo Saxon work can be glimpsed in the mainly Norman structure.
Hinton Ampner Church of All Saints, sits on it’s hilltop gazing out to Gander Down, in one direction it looks to the Meon Valley, in the other, [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2016
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 (KJV)
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 27th 2016
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Memorial to St Swithun
St Swithun is the Saxon patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. Before the reformation his bones were displayed in a reliquary within the Benedictine Monastery. The reliquary and shrine to St Swithun was destroyed in 1538 by the commissioners of King Henry VIII.
The life of St Swithun, an Anglo-Saxon bishop, is rich in legend. A century [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2016
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
Sri Chinmoy
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 20th 2016
