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.


Friday, 29 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winfarthing and Our Lady of Weston


Moving north-eastwards the next two stops on the Pilgrimage are at the churches of St Mary at Winfarthing in Norfolk and St Peter at Weston in Suffolk.
 
My previous posts about these two shrines can be found from last year’s notes at Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of Winfarthing and Our Lady of Weston

Nothing apart from the fact that it existed appears to be known about the devotion at Weston, which is a  simple unaisled building.
  
Winfarthing is better documented but, as my notes across the years show it suggests shall we say, a distinctive local, and community based, set of ideas in the parish. As I have written in previous years it reads like a synopsis for one or more M.R.Janes stories.
 


Winfarthing Church
 
Image: English-church-architecture 




 Weston Church

Image: Facebook - Chris Droffats on Historic churches uk

May Our Lady of Winfarthing and Our Lady of Weston intercede for us
 
Jesu mercy, Mary pray

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