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.


Thursday 25 May 2023

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winchester


The Pilgrimage now reaches the tenth and eleventh century capital city of Winchester and the places in the cathedral there which are associated with devotion to Our Lady.

My posts about the cathedral and its surviving Marian art can be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winchester

Winchester, and especially the cathedral, has so many links with the history of the monarchy with baptisms, marriages and coronations as well as royal burials that to walk round the cathedral is a royal pilgrimage in itself as well as providing a sequence of insights into English history that is, I suspect, unrivalled outside London and Windsor. In addition it offers remarkable architecture and the spectacular array of tombs of Bishops of Winchester.

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


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