Unfortunately, says Father Michael, he can’t let me go down to the river bank and the Holy Well where the Blessed Virgin is said to have performed miracles. Health and Safety you know.More... |
| John Betjeman knew a fine country church when he found one, and he certainly found one in |
You are unlikely these days to find a ploughman homeward plodding his weary way to |
WE ARE in a monk’s garden, and pondering a mystery.More... |
“Church” says the road sign, plain and simple. Which means Hope Bagot, the village I have been hunting for, has crept up on me unannounced.More |
From the moment you step from the woods and through the gothic door set in the high brick wall, you are aware that this is no ordinary garden.More... |
| These days, you have to wear a white hard hat and an orange safety jacket to visit the cloister garden at St Francis’s.More |
| How do you turn a book into a garden? And not just any book, or any garden.More... |
