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.


Sunday 18 August 2024

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Bradstow at Broadstairs


Looking at Waterton I came upon his account of the Shrine of Our Lady at Bradstow at Broadstairs in Kent and was surprised that Canon Stevenson did not include it in his itinerary.

Wikipedia has an account - somewhat meandering, but still useful - of the history of the shrine and chapel at Shrine of Our Lady, Bradstowe

It also has articles about the town at  Broadstairs and of the linked village of St Peter’s at St Peter's, Kent which provide additional contextual material.

HeritageGateway has an entry about what remains of the shrine chapel following its adaption as a nonconformist place of worship in the seventeenth century, and which can be seen here

The website of the nineteenth century Anglican Church of Holy Trinity refers to the shrine and to the creation of a new one in honour of Our Lady in the church in 1980. It can be seen at Our History — Holy Trinity, Broadstairs

The website of the handsome twentieth century Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, can be seen at Our History | Our Lady Star of the Sea, Roman Catholic Church, Broadstairs Road, Broadstairs, Kent


May Our Lady of Bradstow pray for the King and all the Royal Family and for us all.


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