Ah! Boundary changes moved Gorleston and Yarmouth South Town from Suffolk into Norfolk in 1891. Until then the border between the two counties was the River Waveney. Bradwell's move was in 1974, along with five other parishes, the same year that the southern part of Thetford was moved into Norfolk.
Coastal erosion has strange effects...
Fun fact, when this lighthouse was built, it was in Suffolk.
(I wonder if they moved it brick by brick, or all in one go? 😉)
2/2 Here's the whole thing:
Radical religious reforms of the C16/C17 led to significant changes in Scottish churches. The Joiners arms from the guild's new gallery in Dunfermline Abbey Kirk, and a pew cornice from South Leith Kirk, for the new emphasis on bible reading and preaching.
National Museum of Scotland, #WoodensDay
2/2 He was advised that his pipe made him seem more of a man of the people than Tory leader Edward Heath, though that wasn't hard. Wilson said that lighting it gave him time to think. A Liverpool MP for nearly 40 years, he was Prime Minister 1964-70 and 1974-76. His statue by Ian Walters, 1999.
The politician Harold Wilson was born in Huddersfield #OTD 11 March 1916. His statue in the town's St George's Square, photographed in the rain a few weeks ago. He hurries from the railway station reaching in his pocket for his familiar pipe, although he prefered to smoke cigars in private.
St John the Baptist with the agnus dei, a 15th Century stone seated figure dredged from the Firth of Forth, presumably discarded or lost at the Reformation. Now in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Magnolia just about to burst into life in Holywells Park. Here we go again.
2/2 The Blessed Sacrament Chapel in St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, with the portrait of St John Ogilvie hanging above the altar and tabernacle. Today is his feast.
Today's the feast of St John Ogilvie, a Scottish Jesuit priest hanged at Glasgow Cross #OTD 10 March 1615. His image by Peter Howson hangs in the Blessed Sacrament chapel of St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow. Canonised in 1976, he's the only post-Reformation Scottish Saint so far.
2/2 St Frances dispensing charity, 1870s glass by Clayton & Bell at Kimberley, Norfolk. A legend recalls during a famine she was able to dispense food from a miraculous storehouse that never emptied. An unusual saint to find in 19C glass in a CofE church, it remembers Frances Wodehouse of the Hall.
Today's the feast of St Frances of Rome, 15th Century mystic and foundress. She receives inspiration in glass by Ninian Comper, c1930 in the baptistery of St James Episcopal church, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.
2/2 Here's the whole thing, with another angel and more skulls. A creature of the night holds the drapery of the inscription in its teeth.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday
There's a blanket of fog over the whole of the south-east waiting to welcome you home, Ian...
An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
#MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday
2/2 'I walk secure and blessed in every clime or coast'
St Columba on his mission accompanied by angels. Glass by Herbert Hendrie, 1942, originally made for Tolbooth St John Kirk, Edinburgh, now in Greyfriars Kirk down the road.
St Columba, 6th Century Irish missionary to the Picts and the Scots, in glass by Douglas Strachan, 1922 in St Margaret of Scotland's chapel, Edinburgh.
#StainedGlassSunday
I've now had it confirmed thanks to @jeelyeater1.bsky.social and an article she found in the Scotsman newspaper that this glass IS by Herbert Hendrie, and it was originally donated by Cameron in 1942 to Tolbooth St John's church. When that church closed in the 1970s, the glass came to Greyfriars.
Late winter's lease hath all too long a date
With Eastertide still three weeks away, lets hope no high winds divest it of its bloom...
3/3 David Cameron was a highly regarded and wealthy landscape artist who just happened to be an enthusiastic promoter of stained glass in churches thanks to his staunch presbyterianism. I'm assuming he bought the glass when its original church closed. So who is it by? Could it be Herbert Hendrie?
2/3 Marjorie Kemp's glass at 1/3 is one of just two 20th Century windows in Greyfriars Kirk. Here's the other, and it's a bit of a puzzle. It was brought here from elsewhere, perhaps in the 1930s. The church claims it is by 'the artist David Cameron', who donated it. However, all is not as it seems.
It just interests me, with her no longer remembered in the Ordo, that it's an American protestant denomination that still holds a candle for her, so to speak. And of course I thoroughly approve, it's a significant moment in the Gospels.
St Margaret of Scotland and St Helen, by Marjorie Kemp, 1938 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh for #StainedGlassSunday.
Yes, she's venerated as the first Apostle in the Orthodox tradition. Although she's no longer included in the Roman canon I believe that American Episcopalians, of all people, continue to observe a lesser feast in their liturgical calendar.
I think in the late 19th Century there was generally a move away from what were seen as garish colours in Art and Design. I think HBB were in such high demand, and needed to maintain their success as a mass production workshop by moving with the times.
3/3 Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1863 in Bradford Cathedral. HBB at their very best in the early 1860s after Robert Bayne had joined the firm. They would become victims of their own success in the following decades.
2/3 Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, a collected 16th Century continental roundel, one of more than eighty now at Nowton, Suffolk.
Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, a headstone relief of 1877 at Fordham, Norfolk. There are a number of roughly contemporary headstones depicting biblical scenes in this area on both sides of the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border, so presumably the work of the same workshop.
