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Children’s view of history – Peterborough Cathedral
Hello everybody. My name is Aiden and I am four years old. Sometimes people call me AJ so you can too if you like. My Mummy is called Paula and she does write a page for her work. I am being assessed for something called Autism as I sometimes do things that other boys and girls don’t do but Mummy says that doesn’t matter to her as she loves me anyway, all the way to the moon and back again. She calls them meltdowns, but I think she is funny when she says that, because I’m not melting. Mummy is writing my words so I hope I do okay…
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Exton Parish Church and the history of the Earls of Gainsborough
My turn to contribute again everybody. So today I’m going to take you on a short tour of my local Church, as discussed by Phoebe in her ‘Historic towns’ series, and discuss some of the residents within, and their family history. Exton Parish Church – or to give it its proper name the Parish church of St Peter and St Paul, Exton – stands in the grounds of the seat of the Earl of Gainsborough, Exton Park. Although on private land, reached by a footpath cut into the boundary walls of the estate, it has served the as the village church for many years; indeed, there are records of a…
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Peterborough Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew sits in the centre of Peterborough. Surrounded on three sides by church buildings, and fronted by a grass lawn, the precinct is entered by a stone gateway on the west side. On approach it is possible to note that the Cathedral has a lop-sided appearance as one of the great towers, to the right hand side behind the stone façade was never completed. Three large arches of the early Gothic style welcome visitors, each containing the statue of one of the saints to which the Cathedral is dedicated. Built in the 12th Century, at around the same time…
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Roche Abbey
Hi everybody, it appears it’s my turn to make a small contribution again to the page other than setting up posts for you all and replying to some of your comments… so, please forgive me if this isn’t up to the usual calibre, but the writers are so much better than me 🙂 Here’s a little something about a site that is close to where i grew up. Hope you all enjoy it Built in 1147, Roche Abbey nestled on the side of Maltby Beck, near Rotherham. Home to an Order of Cistercian Monks, it was quite advanced for a monastery of the medieval period. Later developments included a kitchen…
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Churches of the UK – Parish churches and Royal Peculiars
So we all know what a Church is for, what it looks like, who runs it. Right? They can be Catholic, Anglican, Methodist or Mormon and all branch denominations in between. From modern brick buildings to small, ancient, weather beaten stone-built creations often found meandering through the countryside, where they have stood, in company of long grass and leaning ivy-covered stones of long forgotten graves, many for close to a thousand years. That’s quite impressive really isn&rsqu [...]
