Gardening companion this afternoon, always close by my side on the lookout for a tasty snack! 🪱

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Jacobean pulpit where John Wesley gave his first sermon in 1725.

Our second Cotswold church: St James the Great at South Leigh with its remarkable restored medieval wall paintings (14th-15th century), including a Doom! 😍 1/5

Saint Aelred’s pilgrim trail: Lent pilgrimage walking event in Yorkshire to be filmed for BBC's The One Show this weekend www.msn.com/en-gb/travel...

2/2. Details from St Edburga's shrine, showing the heraldic detail that allowed the shrine to be dated so precisely. St Edburga of Bicester (d.650) is said to be the daughter of Penda of Mercia. 😇

And, of course, the shrine of St Edburga of Bicester rescued from Bicester Priory at the Dissolution and used as an Easter Sepulchre at St Michael's until its provenance was discovered in 1935. Part of the original Purbeck Marble shrine (1294-1317) stands atop a later tomb. 1/2

Took a few hours out to visit a couple of Cotswold churches earlier in the week. Both had some amazing medieval treasures! First: St Michael's, Stanton Harcourt, which boasts the oldest medieval wooden rood screen in England AND a saint's shrine! 1/2 The 13th-century rood screen

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Pilgrims at St Aldhelm's Chapel, St Aldhelm's Head (Dorset). 📸2023

St Withburga's Well, East Dereham (Norfolk), next to the church that once held her medieval shrine. 📸2024

Nave of the grand Basilica San Paolo Fuori le Mura (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls), Rome. 📸2024

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A pilgrim's scallop shell found with a burial at Whitby Abbey cemetery, 14th-15th centuries, and displayed at the Whitby Abbey Museum. Note the holes at the top: a chord would have threaded through to attach the shell to the pilgrim's clothing.

1/2 Also at St Mary's, the striking Caedmon Memorial, 1898 ...

More from St Mary's, Whitby. 1/2. Artefacts from the Saxon period, the 15th century (font) and the 17th century (parish chest). The font is one of two displayed in the church after being discovered at a local farm where they were being used as livestock troughs.

Second holy well of last weekend's pilgrimage trip: Old Wives Well near Stape and close to the Roman Road known as Wades Causeway on the North Yorkshire moors. May have pre-Christians origins. 1/2

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And the nearby St Piran's Well. 📸2015

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On the feast day of St Piran, patron saint of Cornwall, some images of his oratory (preserved behind a retaining wall) and stone cross at Perranporth. 📸2015.

And, close by, and near the Roman road known as Wades Causeway high on the windswept moors, the enigmatic Wheeldale Stones of unknown date and origin.

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On our way home, a quick stop at the Mauley Cross, a medieval wayside cross at Cropton Forest, North Yorkshire.

St Mary's, Whitby! Established in the 12th century as the parish church for the town, and a role it still plays today. (No vampires here!!) 1/2

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And close to Whitby Abbey: St Hilda's Well, Hinderwell. A place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages reputed to cure eye ailments. The spring is said to have miraculously appeared in response to Hild's prayers during a drought. The St Hilda's Way begins here. 👣

Thrilled to finally visit Whitby Abbey (North Yorks) at the weekend, the once-time home of St Hild and the poet Caedmon, and venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664! Ruins of the Benedictine Abbey, 1220s. 1/2

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Modern shrine at St Mary's, Kersey (Suffolk) replacing the medieval shrine containing a Pietà. 📸2021 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

7th-century bishop's throne (cathedra), Hexham Abbey. 📸2025

Unexpected visit to the extraordinary parish church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton (Wiltshire) last weekend. This 1845 Italianate building was designed by T H Wyatt & D Brandon. Its 108 ft-high external bell tower is just one of its many features of interest ... 1/3

New South African pilgrim route: the Sedgefield–Wilderness Camino www.msn.com/en-za/travel...

In Italy, the bones of St. Francis are going on public display, a mixed blessing for Assisi www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

National Geographic hail route of North Wales sacred sit www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/2586884...

Pilgrim Badge with the "Rood of Grace" from Boxley Abbey, Kent. 15th century. Boxley was on the pilgrimage route to Canterbury. On 24 Feb 1538 John Hilsey ex-Dominican formally ridiculed the Rood of Boxley. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Lough Derg (aka St Patrick's Purgatory), Station Island, Donegal (Ireland). Pictured: the Penitential Beds, the probable site of the 'purgatory' cave, and St Mary's Chapel in the background. 📸2023