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We Don't Need No Illumination
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Melbourne Hall, Leicester
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Flowers in a Window (1956)
Posted 1 day 15 hours ago

Lowry’s Flowers in a Window (1956) hangs in the gallery that bears his name down in Salford. Had it been painted by someone else, it would be worthless, but his signature adds rather a lot of zeros to any auction price.

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Family Lessons 160: Rivals and Marriage
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Wolsey's Grave
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Bournville Friends' Meeting House
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Britain's Sectarian Divisions
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St Cuthbert's Church, Embleton
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Silver Lining
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St Mary de Castro, Leicester
Posted 4 days 15 hours ago

I was pleased to call at the Church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester this winter. Its peculiar name has less to do with Cuban dictators than the Latin word for 'castle' in the shadow of which it once stood. It is an Anglo-Catholic congregation; Simon Jenkins' waspish comment in England’s 1000 Best Churches made me smile:

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