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…
Burton-upon-Trent has two churches dedicated to Saint Modwen, its patron saint. There is not much known about Modwen. She was apparently an Irish noblewoman who, on her pilgrimage to Rome,…
Whitby Abbey is a special place. The abbey dominates the landscape from its exposed location on top of the cliffs. The ruins of the Benedictine monastery visible today were originally…