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“I went to Coventry Cathedral not too long after it was rebuilt and I remember the rising from the destruction atmosphere of it. We felt somehow proud that it had not been cancelled as a living spiritual Cathedral.”
My mother emails me about my #MiddleEngland thread…
My mother emails me about my #MiddleEngland thread…
Thanks to all who recommended this. Settling down to watch it now!
Wonderful to have watched this film after a visit to Coventry Cathedral. What a charming man Sir Basil Spence seems to have been. And what a profound metaphor for Christianity’s relationship to its history he fashioned with his design.
We start our tour of #MiddleEngland in Oxford, where tonight in the garden in Christ Church that helped inspire Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland my daughter’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is being staged. A sellout (so proud!), but there are tickets on the door…
Also an inspiration to Lewis Carroll was this holy well in Binsey, which in the Middle Ages was famed for the miraculous properties of its ‘treacle’ - its ‘healing fluid’.
Hence the Treacle Well in Alice…
Hence the Treacle Well in Alice…
The well appeared thanks to the prayers of Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford. The pagan ruler of Leicester tried to make off with her; she struck him blind; being kind, she then healed him. Still he came after her: so she fled to the remote island of ‘Betona,’ aka Binsey.
