Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Science & Nature, Wells 2016
Crossing the wooden boardwalk, you approach the shady and secretive corner of the grounds where St Andrew’s Well rises. There are two or three other wells here, which in summer are thick with wetland plants.*
St. Andrew’s Well
In 705 King Ine of Wessex gave land near the wells to Aldhelm, his Bishop, so that he could [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2016
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
This sculpture is by David Backhouse, a Somerset artist who also created Memorial to Animals in War in London.
‘This sculpture is inspiring in its own right, and also changes the way you look at the setting. The pilgrim seems to both belong here, and to be passing through’ (Dee Price)*
*From a signboard next to the [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2016
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2016
True beauty must come, must be grown, from within…
Ralph W. Trine
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2016
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016
The moat around the Bishops’s Palace was designed to divert water from low lying ground around that caused flooding around the palace:
Ralph of Shrewsbury saw through an ambitious building project to transform this damp, unstable site. He channeled the water from the wells into a moat surrounding the Palace, which acted as a reservoir. It [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2016
