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.


Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Christmas 2024


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Statue of the Virgin and Child
English work dated to 1340-80
Discovered with two other statues under the floor of Flawford church when it was demolished in 1779.
Now in Nottingham Castle Musem

Image: Nottingham City Council

With every good wish and my prayers for a blessed, peaceful and happy Christmas to all my readers


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