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.


Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Sudbury


The next Pilgrimage station today is that of Our Lady of Sudbury in the parish church of St Gregory in the town. 

It is the largest and most impressive of the three medieval parish churches in the town.  In addition to once being a recognised place of pilgrimage the church has some fine late medieval architecture and furnishings, and still houses the skull of the murdered Archbishop Simon Sunbury from 1381. He had constituted it as a collegiate church - and was the predecessor about whom the former, useless, Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make a tasteless joke in his last appearance speaking in the House of Lords.

My article from last year linking several aspects of the shrine and the church can be seen at 

May Our Lady of Sudbury pray for Pope Leo XIV

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