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Posted 12 min 14 sec ago
St Peter's Church, Chesil, in the Hampshire city of Winchester, is one of those older churches which has been put to secular use. I don’t particularly mind this and find it less offensive than converting into a non-Christian shrine or a carpark. It is now known as the Chesil Theatre, the home of the Winchester Dramatic Society. I rather like the look of it.
Posted 1 day 11 min ago
I came across these men of African descent engaged in evangelism in Leicester this year. They had complained that the staff from the City Council had ‘moved them on’ to this quieter spot, away from the busy streets. One of them sardonically observed to me that the local Muslim evangelists were seemingly exempt from any Council objections, whose stalls occupied the best positions.
Posted 3 days 12 min ago
Rivington Church, which pleasingly has no saintly dedication, is in the pretty little village between Blackburn and Bolton, which it shares with the Unitarian Rivington Chapel, which was once Presbyterian. In its grounds, there is a remarkable number of seventeenth-century gravestones, one of which goes back to James I, in 1616:
Posted 4 days 12 min ago
This funeral effigy of Joan de Vere was made some time after she died in 1292. Originally placed in Lewes Priory, it was relocated to Chichester Cathedral in the sixteenth century’s dissolution of monastic institutions. She is flanked by two sets of weeping angels, whose heads zealous reformers or puritans saw fit to remove.
Posted 4 days 12 min ago
Strathaven Evangelical Fellowship (South Lanarkshire) meets in premises which began as a Brethren meeting hall which was built about 1876. In 1989 it was rebranded and the Lord's people continue to gather there.
Sunday Worship 10.45am & 6.00pm