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Archive for the 'Ely 2018' Category
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2019
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Guardians of the Temple Gateway
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 28th 2018
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Anglesey Abbey Rose Garden in November
In 1939 Lord Fairhaven created the Rose Garden, a quintessentially English feature. The Rose Garden produces spectacular colour and scent in the summer months*
*From the Anglesey Abbey Gardens guidebook
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 27th 2018
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Autumn Delights – Anglesey Abbey
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2018
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Anglesey Abbey – The Pinetum
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2018
Filed under Ely 2018, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
The Presbytery and the Choir
The Presbytery is so named because it is here that the priests, or presbyters, officiate. It was dedicated in 1252 in the presence of King Henry III and Prince Edward. The Norman church ended just east of the steps to your left. In the thirteenth century Bishop Hugh Northwold rebuilt the whole of the east [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2018
St Dunstan (909- 988) and St Ethelwold (908 – 984)
Together these two churchmen were responsible for the revival of monasticism in England. In 970, one hundred years after it was sacked by the Danes, Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, re-established the monastery in Ely as a Benedictine foundation.
The Rule of Benedict, written in the 6th century, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2018
