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, 2 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady in the Undercroft Canterbury Cathedral


The second destination on the Pilgrimage is the shrine of Our Lady in the Undercroft in Canterbury Cathedral.

Situated in the Western Crypt it lies in the oldest part of the present cathedral. It was a major place of pilgrimage in the medieval period and would doubtless have been visited by pilgrims such as those described by Chaucer in addition to their primary object the shrine of St Thomas Becket in the main part of the cathedral.
  
My post from last year, with links to my previous articles about this fascinating survival, and its modern restoration, can be seen at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of the Undercroft in Canterbury Cathedral

 

The Western Crypt and the Chapel of Our Lady in the Undercroft 
Image: Canterbury Cathedral 

May Our Lady in the Undercroft intercede for us and our intentions

Jesu mercy, Mary pray

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