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.


Saturday, 24 May 2025

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Howden, of Stamford, and of Flawford


These last three locations are ones I have added to the original itinerary not because they were specific destinations for medieval pilgrims, but because they are surviving examples of later medieval devotional images of Our Lady in churches.

My observations about them can be read by following the links in my post from last year at

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Howden, of Stamford, and of Flawford


May Our Lady of Howden, of Stamford, and of Flawford pray for Pope Leo XIV


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