Category Archives: Sacred sites

Year of the Pig…

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Stuart France

Image – Sue Vincent * The device of riddling is common to most traditional cultures. Maidens set riddles for their suitors: ‘What is sweeter than mead…?’ ‘What is whiter than snow…?’ ‘What is lighter than a spark…?’ * Antagonists use … Continue reading →

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Time travelling: A place of kings and “holy air…”

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Sue Vincent

“Holy air encased in stone” … that is how Sir John Betjeman described the crypt at Repton, and it was this that we had come to see… we hoped. On a previous visit, the crypt had been locked. This time, … Continue reading →

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Soul-Seer…

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Stuart France

Bryn Celli Ddu – Interior *** Deep in the belly of the earth, somewhere in Wales… Bark Jaw-Dark was under attack… First she was a speck, black against the sky, then she was an arrow balancing the breeze, finally, after … Continue reading →

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Time Bleed…

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Sue Vincent

*** … “Stratford Strange Day!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Well, the first thing was our conversation before we’d even properly decided we were going to Stratford…” “Which one?” “Statues!” “Oh, that one. It didn’t strike me as particularly … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future…

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Sue Vincent

*** We went back once more to where it all began. Paying our respects to Dragon Hill, the ancient White Horse and the hillfort known as Uffington Castle, we left the car and the world behind and walked to Wayland’s … Continue reading →

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St Michael’s-on-Wyre…

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Stuart France

*** I first visited St Michael’s-on-Wyre over forty-five years ago. I was around eight or nine years old at the time and we called in on the way back from a day on Beacon Fell. Something about the memory of … Continue reading →

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Phantom Inns…

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Sue Vincent

* Count Jan Potocki (pron. Yan Pototchkee) was born of an aristocratic Polish family in 1761. In 1815, shortly after completing his masterwork, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, and suffering from a chronic illness he took his own life by … Continue reading →

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Temples Too…

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Stuart France

*** The space created by the temple, for augury, originally, appears to have been in order to better observe the flight of birds across the sky. To afford them focus and meaning. Their point of origin, the direction of travel, … Continue reading →

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Living Ones…

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Stuart France

‘Solar Bear’ – Sue Vincent 2009 *** … “Well,” says Wen, with a mischievous grin playing across her features, “I have some more shocking news for you.” “Really?” say I. Not really paying too much attention because most of that … Continue reading →

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Temples…

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Stuart France

‘Hassop Church comprising a sandstone temple with Etruscan portico, Grecian windows, and Tuscan pilasters. Constructed deep in the Derbyshire Dales by Francis Eyre.’ (Photograph and description by Sue Vincent) * Temple – n 1. a building designed for religious purposes. … Continue reading →

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