Cherie's Place » Wells

Delayed Plans

CherryPie — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:24:28 +0000

Tomorrow we should have been travelling to this delightful destination for our Easter weekend break.

But for now I can only dream…

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 19 May 2019 23:57:27 +0000

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:11:02 +0000

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Psalms 17:8

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:01:22 +0000

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:48:06 +0000

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyám

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:19:34 +0000

In Christ there is no Jew or Greek, no slave or free, no male or female, for all of you are one in Christ.

Galatians 3:28

I was inspired to post the above thought when it was quoted on an inspirational blog that I regularly read . I wondered what photograph I would use to go with the quote and I was directed (in my mind) to click on a folder and this image was the first photo in the folder.

I searched the Bishop’s Palace website to view details of the chapel and altar.

The page about the chapel revealed an additional quote that connects and chimes with the quote I was inspired with…

The new altar, made of maple and Ancaster stone, was designed by David John and made by Richard Richardson. The altar stands above engraved stone work by John Rowlands Pritchard, with the text, ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself; and has given us the ministry of reconciliation’. (2 Corinthians 5:18).

The things that I refer to as ‘my strange coincidences’ are at work again…

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:25:45 +0000

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wells at Night

CherryPie — Sat, 27 May 2017 21:59:52 +0000

The West Front – Wells Cathedral

CherryPie — Mon, 22 May 2017 21:06:27 +0000

The Bishop’s Chapel

CherryPie — Fri, 19 May 2017 23:23:41 +0000

The earliest part of the Bishop’s Palace in Wells was built in 1206 by Bishop Jocelyn, who also built a two storey chapel on this site. Some years later between 1275 and 1292 Bishop Burnell used the existing foundations to change the chapel into the single storey building we see today. In the nineteenth century a second storey was added to the Palace building and the chapel parapets were raised to keep the Chapel in proportion.

To celebrate the eight hundred years since Bishop Jocelyn was granted land to build a Palace in Wells in 1206, a new altar and presidential chair were commissioned.

The celtic knot design represents reconciliation and connectedness.

The altar stone is engraved with the words: ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself and he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.’ (2 Corinthians 5.18)

*information taken from the The Chapel of the Holy Trinity and St Mark information booklet