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June 14, 2015

Corbridge – St Andrew

St Andrew’s church at Corbridge is in the middle of the village – NY987644. I like the church, have worshipped there, regularly lunch with David the Vicar, and they have an excellent website http:// www.corbridgechurch.org.uk/. You may enjoy their Chamber Music Festival in August – website – though I wish they would have an evening Choral service that I could get to. Julie and I like to stop in the village, but there is not a lot of disabled parking. We found a space on Wednesday 20 May – then I went round the church, and Julie went to Forum Books....
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May 21, 2015

Great Salkeld, Cumbria – St Cuthbert

We’re over the border in Cumbria, and stopped at Great Salkeld to have a look at St Cuthbert’s church – NY552368. The guide leaflet has a quotation from Ernest Barker, LLD, King’s College, London: “The village church has been the very core and symbol of the deepest life of the English nation – continuous still – dead knit to living, man knit to God”. I don’t know who the honourable gentleman is, but what a smashing quote. It seems appropriate if the first photo is of the war memorial. (This Sunday in Ponteland we are commemorating three men who...
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March 29, 2015

Knutsford, Cheshire – St John

Staying in Cheshire for a few days. On Friday 6 March Alex and I drove to Knutsford, so I could find a bank. We then walked down to St John’s church – website. The church is at one end of the High Street, surrounded by the busyness of the town, and the churchyard was beautiful. We walked down the main path – which is made of the headstones. I find it so sad when headstones are reduced to this – I know how angry I’d feel if, even in 300 years time, someone took Gareth’s and Theo’s headstones and put them...
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March 12, 2015

Whittingham – St Bartholomew (again)

I had a DAC visit to Whittingham to look at plans for a kitchen in the south transept. Since last visiting in May 2013 they have put a loo in the south west corner, and had the floors well-sorted. It was nice to go back. I was running a little early, so I stopped in the middle of the village to look at the Ravensworth Statue and Fountain – a grade II listed statue. It was built in 1905 in memory of Athole, 3rd Earl of Ravensworth, erected by the Countess Caroline, his wife. Some nice metal signs nearby....
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February 26, 2015

Sugley – Holy Saviour

The day after we had been to Carlisle, I went to Sugley for an evening Deanery Chapter meeting. I went back on Friday 30 to get outside pictures in daylight. Holy Saviour, Scotswood Road, Sugley, serves the community of Lemington. Website at http://holysaviour.co.uk/. The church is on the north side of the road at NZ187646, with a car park on the north west side of the church – the church is actually aligned north-south. Although in our Deanery I had not been in until last autumn – the previous Vicar wasn’t in favour of women priests so had little...
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January 24, 2015

Sheffield Cathedral

If my maths is right this will be blog 200 – so 200 can celebrate son Harry getting his MA and Sarah getting her MSc from Sheffield University. We will also celebrate that Sheffield Cathedral has its own tram stop. It is amusing that Julie’s disabled pass from Northumberland gets her on a Sheffield tram free, but she has to pay for a ride on a Newcastle metro. Harry has been in Sheffield for over 4 years and we had not been in the Cathedral – this morning, Friday 16 January 2015 (his graduation is in the afternoon), we finally...
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January 5, 2015

Birtley – St Giles

St Giles, Birtley stands high above the North Tyne – we crossed the bridge at Wark, crossed the old line that used to run north to Riccarton Junction – I have just typed that into google to check the spelling, and got “junction near Riccarton” and a link to the Punjabi Junction restaurant in Edinburgh. Isn’t the internet marvellous! Apparently there is a metal roadsign in Birtley still pointing to “Wark station” (I must go and look for it). The church is in a group with Chollerton and Gunnerton. It is on the right as you enter the village...
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October 28, 2014

Great Dunmow, Essex – St Mary the Virgin

We had a week in Bread Cottage at http://www.buryfarmcottages.co.uk – very convenient for Saturday’s wedding, Cambridge and London. Just a few miles from Stansted Airport, but in the middle of nowhere. I even managed a country walk.               We drove into Great Dunmow, which is just down the road. We couldn’t park by the shops, but managed to find the church down by the River Chelmer and parked in the car park – TL629230. I went for an explore, and found the church of St Mary the Virgin open. I chatted to one...
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October 27, 2014

Blyth – St Cuthbert

I think it has to be admitted that Blyth is not a Northumberland town that many tourists will ever go to, and I have never been into the town except on a railtour down to the docks. Today St Cuthbert’s church – NZ318815 – was open with an excellent exhibition about the First World War. ­­I walked in, and was greeted with “you’re the chap who helped us get those Lindisfarne Gospels panels last year”, which was a nice way to be greeted – good to know I’m appreciated. They have an excellent church guide, a guide to their...
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October 27, 2014

Bedlington – St Cuthbert

              I parked by St Cuthbert’s Bedlington, NZ260817, wandered in, admired the plaque and the entrance pillars, and was greeted by a big hug from Elizabeth, one of the clergy. The church is on an ancient site, perhaps 8th century. It is recorded that Bishop Cutheard of Chester-le-Street purchased land for a church, priest’s house and farm around 900. The first recorded incumbent was Eilaf, who is thought to have been one of the seven monks who left Holy Island in 875 carrying Cuthbert’s body. This is a Saxon carving of angels. Norman...
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