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 of Lincoln


Last year I added this shrine with its long-lost seated figure of the Virgin and Child to Canon Stevenson’s itinerary. I wrote an account of it and it’s place in the life of the cathedral and city of Lincoln and also included the statue of Our Lady recently commissioned by the cathedral. 

The article can be read at Our Lady of Lincoln

Our Lady of Lincoln Pray for us. 


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