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, 13 April 2025

Further restoration at Nottingham Cathedral


There is good news this week about the continuing restoration of Augustus Wellby Northmore Pugin’s cathedral of St Barnabas in Nottingham.

I have written before about work there to reinstate the decoration that had been overpainted in the eastern chapels in a post in October 2022 which can be seen at Good news from Nottingham Cathedral

The cathedral has now received a second, and larger, grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to continue the work as is reported by the Catholic Herald at Nottingham Cathedral gets £1.69m National Lottery grant to restore Pugin’s vision


The story is also covered by the Catholic News Agency which has some photographs of the work in progress. This can be seen at Gothic Revival cathedral in Nottingham to shine again with historic grant



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