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 8 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Muswell


The last of the medieval north London Marian shrines on the itinerary is that of Our Lady of Muswell. I wrote about this chapel and its associated well, or wells, last year in Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Muswell

Since I created that my attention has been drawn to an informative website which gives more details about how the site was safeguarded on the eve of the dissolution and the subsequent history of the wells. This can be seen at An Island of Clerkenwell - Notes on the Chapel and Well of Our Lady of Muswell: Connolly & Bloom

The healing properties of the water at Muswell were believed to have wrought a cure for King Malcolm IV of Scots in the mid-twelfth century.

Our Lady of Muswell pray for The King and The Queen and for us all.


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