Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. Looking online for suitable images I was entranced by the vitality of the standard Catholi...

Hardwick Hall seems to have taken over a corner of the blog. Having posted about the restoration of the Long Gallery tapestries in  Restorin...

Glastonbury is an historic site, a spiritual site, a legendary site, and one that has long held a fascination for me. I was fortunate in the...

I recently wrote in  Restoring Bess of Hardwick’s tapestries   about the completion of the restoration of the tapestries in the Long Gallery...

The mark the feast day of St Lawrence the New Liturgical Movement  has a post about how his feast is celebrated by various Western liturgica...

Today is the feast of St Lawrence, who, together with St Stephen and St Vincent, is one of the three great deacon martyr saints. In the case...

The Daily Telegraph  has published as a separate article an extract from Gareth Russell’s new book on the history of Hampton Court. In it he...

520 years ago, on August 8th 1503, King James IV of Scots married Margaret the daughter of King Henry VII of England in the abbey church of ...