Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
All students who attend Winchester college are required to attend Sunday services in the chapel.
The guide who took us round the college explained that the main window in the church was a replica. The original had gone for cleaning and those undertaking the operation damaged some of the pains of glass. So they made a [...]
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Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
I invite you to read my post about Winchester Cathedral on the Broad Oak Magazine blog.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
From The Teaching of Buddha
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From the Three Saints website:
The medieval church of St Lawrence in the Square is of great interest, not only for its unusual square design but also for its fine 17th-century ‘king-post’ roof and its ancient site. There was a church on the site before the Norman conquest, and it was incorporated into William the Conqueror’s palace [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 21st 2014
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The Church of St Swithun upon Kingsgate has been a place of worship for more than 750 years. The church, built in the middle ages is located above the medieval Kingsgate, one of the principle entrances to the city. The church is unusual in that it forms part of the city wall.
From Wikipedia:
The first mention [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 15th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
On the way home from my recent weekend in Oxford, we stopped off at Coughton Court. The beginning of November seems an appropriate time to visit Coughton Court because it and the Throckmorton family who owned it played a pivotal role in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
The plot was the climax of a series of [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 5th 2014
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
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