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I was delighted to come across All Saints' Church in the south Wiltshire village of Maiden Bradley this autumn. Its custodians had considerately left it unlocked so the prayerful and the curious might enter. It all seemed so typical: a nice, medieval parish church nesting in an attractive little village.

At Lincluden in Dumfries is the ruined Collegiate Church and the tomb of Princess Margaret. She was daughter of King Robert III, Countess of Douglas and Duchess of Touraine, as well as a relative to half the nobles of Scotland. She would certainly have received a grand funeral, but now the great church is ruined, the noblewoman’s resting place relegated to mere historic curio.