Today, I visited two very distinctive and different places associated with St Kyneburgha and her sister St Kyneswide, which I mentioned in the last blog about St Tibba. The remains…
My last journey back in time leads me to Ryhall, a small and peaceful village northwest of Peterborough. The church of St John the Evangelist is a light-flooded place, very…
Water plays an essential role in many religions across the periods and beliefs and features prominently in the places associated with cultic acts and religious procedures: water has healing capabilities;…
Cities and towns are fascinating places. Urban landscapes are palimpsests of the traces left behind by generations that lived, worked and died in the tangle of buildings, alleys and streets.…
The patron saint of Oxford and the university is Saint Frideswide (c. 680 -727), meaning ‘peace’ and ‘strong’. Her ancestry is not clear. The earliest written account of her life is provided by William…