Peace is the fairest form of happiness.
William Ellery Channing
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
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The Chained Library
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The Chapter House
The Canons [Prebendaries] met here daily to discuss Cathedral business, but now meet only on informal occasions. The room is used for exhibitions and concerts etc.
Brass plates over each stall show the place of each man’s ‘prebend’ ie. the farm or estate from which his income was formerly derived.
Windows formerly of stained glass described in [...]
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The Jesse Window
The Jesse window is one of the most splendid examples of 14th century stained glass in Europe. This great East Window shows the central story of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus, surrounded by some earthly ancestors including Jesse, father of King David.*
*from a signboard in front of the window
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 6th 2016
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Wells Cathedral
West Front
The present Cathedral was begun about 1175 on a new site to the north of an old minster church.
Bishop Reginald de Bohun brought the idea of a revolutionary architectural style from France, and Wells was the first English cathedral to be built entirely in this new Gothic style.
The first building phase took about eighty [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 5th 2016
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The Garden of Reflection
Visitors approach the garden past the well pools, along curving paths which delay the moment of arrival, and through planting which echoes the colours and shapes of stained glass in the palace chapel. With the garden they find themselves beneath the gaze of the Cathedral tower, in a green and sheltering enclosure. Beside the path [...]
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Listen in deep silence.
Be very still and open your mind….
Sink deep into the peace
that waits for you beyond the frantic,
riotous thoughts and sights
and sounds of this insane world.
From A Course in Miracles (…And Wisdom come quietly -Helen Exley)
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2016
