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November 20, 2015

Stow, Lincolnshire – St Mary the Virgin

We are driving through Lincolnshire, and I saw the sign to Stow. I decided to divert via the stunning Saxon church – the church of St Mary. Last time I came here was on preaching experience while at Theological College – I seem to recall comments about waving my arms round too much. I cannot find a website for this church, and have failed to find any sites about church tourism in Lincolnshire. The Diocesean website does not seem to suggest that churches are worth visiting. I am prepared to be proved wrong on this quick google – but...
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July 26, 2014

Colsterworth, Lincolnshire – St John the Baptist

Driving up and down the A1 it is good to know good stopping places. I recommend the Windmill at Tuxford – we’ve been stopping here for excellent home baking since Hannah went to Durham in 2005. Do check their opening days on their website. Driving from Suffolk back home we didn’t make it as far north as Tuxford before I needed refreshment, so went to Woolsthorpe Manor instead. A National Trust property – http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor/. “Typical of a small provincial manor house, the house of comfortable, if not particularly affluent, yeoman farmers” to quote the NT guide. Isaac Newton was born here on...
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July 11, 2014

Long Sutton, Lincolnshire – St Mary

We continued on across the Fens and stopped in Long Sutton. A cafe for the locals did me ham, egg and chips, and the market place is beautifully decorated with hanging baskets. St Mary’s church is at the bottom of the main drag. You come to the west door (locked), try the north door (locked), then find access is easy through the south door! It won a tourism award about a decade ago – still proudly displayed – but tourism seems to be no longer important. No guidebook, current leaflets of “What’s on” in the area buried in a...
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July 11, 2014

Heckington, Lincolnshire – St Andrew

En route from Lincoln to Suffolk we could go via the A1/A14, or the A17 and across the Fens. We stopped in Heckington and found Sylv’s cafe – very nice, and a chatty couple who are involved in the church. John tells us that there’s about 40 people attending St Andrew Heckington (doubled from a few years ago) – website – it’s in a group of eight churches. They have a rather good strap line “Built in the 14th century, still alive in the 21st.   We walked up to the church, and Julie spent a happy time looking at the bookstall...
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July 10, 2014

Lincoln – St Paul in the Bail

Lincoln is a Roman City. The Fosse Way (from the South West) meets the Ermine Street (from London) at the bottom of the hill. The Roman City was built on top of the hill – you can see the main gates, and the Ermine Street ran north through the Newport Arch and on to York. I love the fact you can still drive through a Roman Arch. In the Roman City is the Roman Forum, and the Mint Wall (the north wall of the Forum) still stands – the highest piece of Roman wall in England. (We lived in...
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July 10, 2014

Lincoln – The Forest Stations

Southwell Minster had a set of “Stations of the Cross”; so does Lincoln (they are on the north wall of the Nave – you can see them in the photo above). “Please touch” says the sign – so, once again, photography can only go so far. I purchased the book (“The Forest Stations, William Fairbank, Frontier Publishing, 1998) from the  Cathedral shop. Fairbank was involved in a car accident in 1987 in which he received a brain injury. He spent several years recovering, using sculpture to help him – and has gone on to do much more. More details here. A...
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July 7, 2014

Lincoln Cathedral

Julie and I lived in Lincoln for the three years I was training at Lincoln Theological College – as you stand on Castle Square facing the Cathedral (photo above), our house was 2 minutes walk to the left, the College one minute to the right. It was a smashing three years. Harry was born shortly after we arrived, so we had three small children. I did not work particularly hard as a student, and we spent a lot of time exploring the County, visiting churches, signal boxes and windmills (what else do you visit?). We loved Lincoln as a...
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