Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Monday, 24 May 2021

Our Lady in the Wood near Epworth


The Marian pilgrimage now turns to the east midlands and to the Carthusian priory of Our Lady in the Wood, or, as it is perhaps better known, Axholme Priory. I wrote about this last year in Our Lady in the Wood in Axholme

To that I would now add an online survey of the site from Historic England which can be seen at Axholme Carthusian Priory and post-Dissolution garden earthworks, Melwood Park, Owston Ferry


Our Lady of the Wood Pray for us


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