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.


Monday, 25 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Scarborough


The Pilgrimage destinationtosay is the headland on which stands the substantial and string remains of Scarborough Castle and the shrine associated with Our Lady’s Well and the site of the adjacent medieval chapel of St Mary.
  
My previous posts about this place of pilgrimage can be accessed at Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Scarborough

I am giving again the link to an online article about it which has some good photographs of what remains at Our Lady's Well (Scarborough)
  

Plan or ‘plat’ of Scarborough 
Probably made 1539 to 1547

Image: silentheory


A later engraving of the plan  showing more including the chapel of St Mary on the Castle rock and the well next to it

Image: Facebook - Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society
    

A reconstruction of the castle about 1300
The chapel of St Mary can be seen at the top left

Image: Chris Jones Jenkins for English Heritage

May Our Lady of Scarborough intercede for us and our intentions 
 
Jesu mercy, Mary pray


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