After Friday’s coffee morning, a great, full-sized rainbow was observed in the skies about Salem Chapel. On closer inspection, a second could be seen, above it, running parallel. It was rather beauitful, and made the thick cloud and rainy sky a fair price to pay for so cheering a sight.
St Mary’s at Chirk in Clwyd, Wales, I was pleased to find open when I called in the autumn. An establishment of some vintage, I found it rather peculiar on three counts, the first being the number of monuments to the dead.
Before Kirkland Hill on the drovers' road from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire sits the church of St Connel. Google Maps associates it with the Covenanters though I saw little to explain this when I called. There were plenty of gravestones and even a collection of medieval fragments, for these are thirteenth-century remains on an even older site (some of those broken stones date to the ninth century).
"Teachers work so hard."
Or:
"Teachers have it so easy with all those holidays."
St Michael overcoming Satan was sculpted by John Wood between 1872 and 1875 from a block of Carrera marble. It was initially displayed at London’s Royal Academy until coming ‘home’ to Warrington from where Wood hailed and whose townsfolk had contributed the one thousand pounds for its commissioning.
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Salem Chapel, Martin Top
near Rimington, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 4EG
Salem Congregational Chapel is a registered charity No. 252401 (England & Wales)
Sunday Worship 10.45am & 6.00pm