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Posted 37 min 34 sec ago
The former church of St Mark’s, Leicester, is an imposing Victorian construction by a major road. It is now the Empire Hall wedding venue, the website of which states:
Posted 1 day 36 min ago
Christians, dismiss your fear;
Let hope and joy succeed;
The great good news with gladness hear,
The Lord is risen indeed.
The shades of death withdrawn,
His eyes their beams display;
So wakes the sun, when rosy dawn
Unbars the gates of day.
Posted 2 days 36 min ago
"For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption..."
Posted 2 days 37 min ago
In the heart of Leicester is a site containing the remains of Roman buildings, including a surprisingly high section of the second century bathhouse. For reasons not altogether clear, it has been called the Jewry Wall since the 1600s, while Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 1100s thought it was the burial place of the original King Lear.
Posted 3 days 36 min ago
Hark! from the cross a gracious voice
Salutes my ravished ears;
“Rejoice, thou ransomed soul, rejoice,
And dry those falling tears.”
Amazed, I turn, grown strangely bold,
This wondrous thing to see;
And there the dying Lord behold,
Stretched on the bloody tree!
Posted 3 days 37 min ago
St Cuthbert’s Church at Lorton in Cumberland is a peculiar little place. It was rebuilt in 1806, after a curate at the end of the eighteenth century had written to the Bishop of Carlisle bemoaning its state, claiming:
“the villagers take their life in their hands by entering the building”.
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