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, 17 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Fernyhalgh


Travelling south into the main part of Lancashire the next station on the Pilgrimage is at Fernyhalgh, which appears to be one that has a more or less continuous history from the medieval period. 

My post from last year, when I added it to the itinerary, has links to a number of websites which recount its history as a place of prayer in the later medieval period, through the recusant era and then since the removal of legal restrictions and the post-Emancipation flourishing of Catholicism in Lancashire. It can be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Fernyhalgh.


The Ladyewell

Image: Christian Heritage Centre

May Our Lady of Fernyhalgh intercede for us and our intentions

Jesu mercy, Mary pray



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